The Cardinal Rule: A Billy Mack Thriller

Why was Billy Mack summoned to Rome on the next plane? Billy thought it was to experience an historic event, but quickly learned otherwise. After a succession of over 266 popes dating back to St. Peter, a sede vacante, a papal vacancy, was not an unusual historical occurrence for the Vatican but a call from Cardinal Kauftheil suggested that this vacancy was unlike any other. The Pope's mysterious death was only a prelude to what was about to confront the Catholic Church. As the College of C...