38 books
The Vatican Knights
An elite unit of soldiers in the service of God — sent where the law cannot reach.
The compelling characters that are the VATICAN KNIGHTS pull in the reader and never let them go. Each of the action thriller novels within the series will leave readers gripped by espionage, religious power, terrorism, political warfare and immersed in the world the VATICAN KNIGHTS live and operate in.
A global television series is currently in development with Amber Entertainment, with Ileen Maisel (The Golden Compass, Dangerous Liaisons) as executive producer.
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Book 1
Vatican Knights
While on a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIII is kidnapped by a terrorist cell calling itself the Soldiers of Islam. If the United States and its allies do not meet their demands, they will execute the pope. So when…
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Book 2
Shepherd One
While traveling across the United States during the Papal Symposium, the papal plane, Shepherd One, is commandeered by a terrorist cell calling itself the Muslim Revolutionary Front. On board: a nuclear payload with half the yield that destroyed Hiroshima. Their demand to…
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Book 3
The Iscariot Agenda
Kimball Hayden is the Commander of an elite commando group known as the Vatican Knights, a black-op force that works for the Church to protect its sovereignty, its interests, and the welfare of its citizenry. But Kimball is being stalked by someone…
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Book 4
Pandora’s Ark
Thirty years ago the world was in the exploratory stages of creating a technology capable of artificial intelligence. Thirty years later that technology has been perfected. In a lab somewhere in a remote mountain region in Iran, nanoparticles, or micro-bots, have been…
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Book 5
Bridge of Bones
While vacationing in Paris, Shari Cohen’s children are kidnapped by Jadran Božanović, a Croatian kingpin who runs a human-trafficking cartel who is as deadly as the knife he wields. Few dare to challenge him. And even fewer dare to defy him. With…
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Book 6
Crosses to Bear
In a Galveston, Texas lab, a lethal strain has been stolen by a terrorist faction. In New Mexico, the population of a small town is completely wiped out. In Las Vegas, a vicious underground clan called the Community surfaces at night to…
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Book 7
The Lost Cathedral
Three years ago the papal airliner goes down over the jungle of Brazil never to been seen again. Three years later those considered lost on that fatal flight begin to show up at Vatican City disconnected from reality. When the pope is…
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Book 8
Dark Advent
Growing up with a sheltering mother and a belligerent father, Kimball Hayden’s young life goes from one of innocence to the depths of chaos. When a vicious syndicate of murderers and extortionists begin to run the streets, Kimball soon becomes the focal…
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Book 9
Cabal
In an abandoned church deep inside the Syrian Desert, Father Jenkins watches over a group of children who’d been orphaned by war and unrest. Having been marked for extraction by the Vatican Knights, a cabal of ruthless killers from the Islamic State…
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Book 10
The Golgotha Pursuit
After the march on the Vatican by the Islamic State, the radical group begins its push deeper into the European and American Fronts. But when the True Cross—the wooden remnants of the cross Jesus was crucified upon and the holiest of all…
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Book 11
Targeted Killing
Long before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he once served as an elite assassin for the United States government. After the ordered assassination on a United States senator by a cabal within the U.S. command, Kimball is set up for failure…
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Book 12
Sinners and Saints
In Geneva, a highly valued product with the power to cause major destruction is stolen from The CERN. Eighty kilometers from the Austrian border, a young girl becomes the key that controls the will of the man with the power to create…
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Book 13
The Barbed Crown
In Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943, a place where ashes rain down on a daily basis to cover the ground with a mantle of gray, a rebel force of Jews band together in a fight for survival. A young Jewish woman from Warsaw and…
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Book 14
The Devil’s Magician
It’s said that when the world isn’t right, a man steps out of the shadows of St. Peter’s Basilica to make it whole again. He is the priest who is not a priest. He’s an angel to some and a demon to…
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Book 15
The Nocturnal Saints
In Washington, D.C., three priests have been murdered and mutilated with their corpses hanging upside-down in mock crucifixion. The only indicator as to the culprit is a 500-year-old order known as the Nocturnal Saints, an underground faction that had been borne from…
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Book 16
The Brimstone Diaries
After a sacred tome written by Saint Peter is stolen from the Vatican’s Secret Archives, people around the world begin to die at the hands of a madman once the secrets of The Brimstone Diaries are unveiled. In Rome, a terrorist faction…
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Book 17
Juggernaut
JUGGERNAUT: a massive unstoppable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path. Kimball Hayden: JUGGERNAUT In Virginia, a Blacksite facility is assaulted with military sophistication to free a homegrown terrorist who once attempted to assassinate FBI Specialist Shari…
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Book 18
Original Sins
In a Washington, D.C. suburb, a family is executed by a government assassin. While flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet, an editor of a newspaper is murdered. In the middle of the night as a bus leaves Washington, D.C., travelers are…
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Book 19
In Between God and Devil
In central Syria, villages are razed as young men are conscripted to join the ISIS faction. In a Doctors Without Borders camp, which is overrun by members of the Islamic State, people are abducted along with a priest, Father Savino, who also…
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Book 20
The Sinai Directive
In Egypt, those within the Saint Catherine Monastery are brutally attacked and a secret that has been hidden for more than 3,500 years is stolen. In Zurich, an arms dealer makes an agreement with a band of elite terrorists for one-of-a-kind weapons…
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Book 21
The Barabbas Connection
During a visit to the United States, Pope Pius XIV is caught within the crosshairs of a lethal assassin. After scores of people are killed during an event featuring the Pope's address, a conspiracy theory emerges that the killings were conducted by…
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Book 22
The Eye of Moses
In France, a member of a secret guild is killed for the secrets he keeps. In Croatia, a stronghold is breached, and a treasure is stolen. At the Vatican, a corrupt pontiff views Kimball Hayden as a threat to his rule. When…
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Book 23
The Crimson Dagger
In Vienna, one of religion’s greatest treasures is stolen from the Imperial Treasury. In Washington, D.C., Shari Cohen finds herself in a struggle between life and death. In Austria, an elite terrorist faction commandeers a state-of-the-art high-rise. When the Spear of Destiny…
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Book 24
The Goliath Chamber
In a hidden chamber beneath an estate in Zurich, a tomblike vault is discovered containing the Unholy Trinity: Satan, the Antichrist and the False Prophet. In Paris, an elite assassin resurfaces with the intent to raze three major cities through acts of…
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Book 25
The Vladorian Keep
Somewhere in the Apuseni Mountains, a member from Vatican Intelligence is running from a kill squad for the secrets he possesses. In Cluj-Napoca, three priests are discovered impaled in the church’s courtyard. From St. Michael’s Church in Transylvania, a nun goes missing…
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Book 26
The Baal Manifesto
In 1769, a wayward priest will create a manifesto that will serve Satan's three messiahs. In Central Afghanistan, Kimball Hayden commits an act resulting in a court-martial proceeding. In Munich, Germany, the manifesto is stolen from the Documentation Center, presumably by the…
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Book 27
Archangel
In Los Angeles, the niece of an esteemed cardinal of the Vatican is abducted by an Albanian mob. Kimball Hayden, a man without a country or the support of the church, soon finds himself in the crosshairs of an indigenous black-op unit…
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Book 28
The Venetian Code
In Cana, Jesus performs the first of His miracles that unites the Apostles. In 1307, a Templar Knight who is on the run from Philip the Fair carries a sacred relic of priceless value. In Germany, a collector of rare books purchases…
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Book 29
The Necrology Report
n Paris, a man’s suicide sets off a chain of events. Days later, the Vatican’s cybersecurity system is breached by a hostile element that forwards necrology reports on members of the Vatican that, in detail, spell out the time and manner of…
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Book 30
The Herod Conspiracy
In Tennessee and Los Angeles, a fortune-teller and an evangelist, both claiming to bear the holy wounds of stigmata, are brutally murdered. Meanwhile, in a shanty town on the outskirts of Rome, a young gypsy girl emerges bearing the unmistakable wounds of…
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Book 31
The Devil’s Protege
In Mindanao, Philippines, a terrorist faction holding members of the clergy hostage is summarily liquidated. On the same night in Manila, a separate team of sophisticated thieves with a considerable amount of military training enter a high-tech security facility to steal the…
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Book 32
The Black Monk
As the Vatican mourns the loss of Kimball Hayden, Isaiah, branded as the new Master Commander, is tasked with confronting the Black Monk, who has utilized AI technology to spread disinformation across Europe, but with an even greater focus on the Vatican…
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Book 33
The Paris Deception
In Paris, a delegate from Hezbollah’s March 8 Alliance is gunned down as he arrives at a summit to broker peace, with all blame placed on Israel. As the world teeters on the edge of war, an unseen force moves in the…
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Book 34
The Magdalene Scrolls
In 1307, as the flames of King Philip IV’s purge consume the Knights Templar, a lone knight flees with a secret that could upend Christendom—a set of scrolls said to bear the words of the Apostles themselves, guided by Mary Magdalene after…
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Book 35
Knightfall
When former Vatican Knight Kimball Hayden seeks solitude in a remote South Dakota cabin, he stumbles upon a catastrophic threat that could ignite World War III. Russian operatives have stolen nuclear launch codes from a secret Black Hills facility and are hiding…
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Book 36
The Devil’s Sanctuary
In 2009, Russian soldiers carry out a genocide in the smaller reaches of Russia, especially those being shielded by the clerics of St. Catherine’s. Nearly two decades later, when the genocidal Russian general seeks sanctuary inside Vatican City, the Vatican Knights are…
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Book 37
The Talisman
A dying Stasi operative known only as Cabal breaks forty years of silence to deliver a message no intelligence service has ever intercepted — a transmission revealing the existence of the Talisman, a state‑sponsored assassination network that has operated flawlessly for decades…
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Book 38
Omega Codex
A book the Church buried for a thousand years. A storm no aircraft can fly through. One night to save it. High in the Italian Alps, in a monastery cut off by snow, a Vatican scholar is about to confirm the most…