The Last Judgement

by Steven Veerapen Book 3 in the Jack and Amy Cole series.

First published 2020

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Rome, 1572. The death of Pope Pius V brings the cardinals together to elect his successor, and Jack and Amy Cole are drawn into a city in which diplomatic factions, church politics and secret intelligence overlap. A violent conspiracy threatens the conclave and forces the couple to navigate the Vatican while serving interests far beyond their own survival.

The conclave that elected Gregory XIII is historical, as is the wider confessional rivalry between Elizabethan England and Catholic Europe. Jack, Amy and the murders surrounding the election are fictional. The novel closes the Jack and Amy Cole trilogy by moving their intelligence work from English religious conflict to the political heart of the Catholic Church.