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Title: A disapointing stumble
Review: I had looked forward to this book, as I enjoyed "The Romanov Prophecy" as a fun summer read. Unfortunately, Berry's allowed his religious and social views to turn his latest book into a screed. The hero's antagonist is a cardinal that believes in priestly celibacy and other traditional Catholic dogma, which makes him not merely wrong-headed but a scheming, blackmailing, cartoon villain who does everything but twirl his mustache as he ties the heroine to railroad tracks. The "secret" that Barry's concocted is intended to be "provocative" in the model of "The Da Vinci Code," but instead the revelation manages to be both hilarious and (there's no other word for it) blasphemous at once. Save your time and your money.
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