Vatican Knights Series by Rick Jones
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Vatican Knights #14
The Devil's Magician
Rick Jones
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 others.
But in the Middle East he is known by another name: . . . The Devil’s Magician . . .
When a cardinal is taken captive by an ISIS faction in Damascus, a team of Vatican Knights is dispatched to secure the cardinal’s release.
But having been ambushed and taken hostage themselves, only one man can bring them out.
After Kimball Hayden walked away from the church months before, he is summarily called to duty by Vatican principals to rescue his team.
But as Kimball works in the Dark to serve the Light, he discovers the truth behind the ambush and follows the trail of the betraying source directly to the Vatican.
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Vatican Knights #15
The Nocturnal Saints
Rick Jones
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 the Protestant Reformation and acts as judge, jury and executioner against those deemed to be in contradiction of old-time traditions.
So when Special Agent Shari Cohen of the FBI is called to track down this faceless enemy, she’s joined by the Vatican Knights who have been dispatched by the pontiff to counteract the order.
But when the investigation suggests that the Pope may be a target, Kimball Hayden suddenly finds himself within the crosshairs, the Nocturnal Saints learn that they must go through the Vatican Knights to achieve their agenda.
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Vatican Knights #16
The Brimstone Diaries
Rick Jones
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 has quietly breached the ranks of the Vatican hierarchy.
As the conspiracy within the ranks begin to materialize, the greatest threat to the Vatican State is about to commence with Vatican City caught dead-center within the crosshairs of total annihilation.
With Kimball Hayden and the Vatican Knights working on two fronts trying to protect the secrets of The Brimstone Diaries and the Vatican, great evils will rise on both sides that may be too much for the Vatican Knights in what could be their swansong mission.
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Vatican Knights #17
Juggernaut
Rick Jones
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 Cohen.
Within days, two of America’s most iconic symbols of freedom are razed.
The stock markets begin to tumble, financial institutes are on the verge of declaring a ‘bank holiday,’ and the American psyche hasn’t been this fragile since 9/11.
In Rome, Kimball Hayden’s demons are at their worst, the man becoming a shell of his former self.
But when he learns that Shari Cohen’s assassin is on the loose, he embarks on a trip of rediscovery that unites him with the woman he loves.
When it’s discovered that the assassin is plotting Operation Herod - a mission so terrible it could cripple the United States - the man behind the undertaking, Mohammad Allawi, has also set his sights on Shari Cohen with plans to finish what he started years ago, by seeing her dead.
For Mohammad Allawi to get to her, however, his highly trained unit must fight their way through the Vatican Knights most esteemed juggernaut known as Kimball Hayden.
As Kimball and Shari form a bond to hunt down her aggressor who keeps America on the brink, they also begin to discover each other.
But as Allawi’s troops draw closer to Shari Cohen, the priest who is not a priest must once again work in the Dark to serve the Light, so that the woman he loves is protected at all costs, even if the cost is his own life.
In a battle with everything at stake - love, life, future - will Kimball Hayden finally find peace against such overwhelming odds?
Or will this be his final mission as a Vatican Knight?
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Vatican Knights #18
Original Sins
Rick Jones
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 gunned down in an act of terrorism.
Inside the Vatican, a Cardinal receives spiritual insight about a deadly killer.
Before Kimball Hayden became a Vatican Knight, he was the commander of the Pieces of Eight, a kill squad that worked as part of a black-arm force of the CIA.
He kills with impunity and acts with the cold fortitude of a machine.
But when he begins to question the morality of his actions and the motives of his superiors, he is placed within the crosshairs by high-end principals who want to see him dead.
But as Kimball Hayden begins to see the negative cost of his actions, he slowly becomes the prey to a predator with absolute power.
Watching from the shadows, however, are the elite commandos of the Vatican Knights.
When Kimball Hayden is deemed expendable by his peers, will the Vatican interfere and offer him a way to the Light?
Or will Kimball continue his path to Darkness and fall victim to those who wish him dead?
From the bestselling author of the Vatican Knights series, Rick Jones weaves a tale of one man’s fall from grace, a rise to redemption, and a journey of rediscovery.
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Vatican Knights #19
In Between God and Devil
Rick Jones
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 happens to be the brother of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.
From the Green Zone in Iraq, Shari Cohen, now a CIA consultant and operator, learns that she must appropriate intel from the resurging ISIS force to stop them from striking international targets.
In Vatican City, Kimball Hayden, a man who was broken in every way a man could be broken, and then mended after being on the brink of death, once again finds himself in service of the Vatican.
But is he the man he used to be?
Is he a soldier of God or something completely different?
In a twofold journey that teams the Vatican Knights with Shari Cohen, they must go into the heart of an ISIS training camp not only to rescue the hostages, but to gather the intel necessary to stop future attacks against high-end principals across the globe.
Outmanned and outgunned, Shari Cohen and the Vatican Knights once again team up to achieve the impossible the only way the Vatican Knights can - with elite combat skills.
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Vatican Knights #20
The Sinai Directive
Rick Jones
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 of mass destruction, for a treasure that was presumed destroyed during the Exodus.
When a conversation between two men is covertly videotaped by an operator of the CIA, Vatican Intelligence and the Mossad realize that the partial message received was filled with enigmas.
Having interpreted the data, the Vatican determines that the communication between these two men was a barter agreement that would place Israel within the crosshairs of the entire Middle East.
That agreement - the Islamic State would exchange the relic of the golden calf for weapons of mass destruction.
With the possibility of bringing the world to the brink of war, the Vatican Knights are once again called to duty to search for the long-missing relic of biblical lore before the exchange can be made.
However, the terrorist cell in search of the iconic piece is a faction that had been pieced together from elite forces throughout the Middle East.
With Kimball Hayden leading his force of Vatican Knights, they will come up against the best warriors the Islamic State has to offer, in a race to find the golden calf.
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Vatican Knights #21
The Barabbas Connection
Rick Jones
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 one of the CIA’s own.
As the data trickles in, it becomes clear that the assassin is none other than Shari Cohen.
With the Vatican Knights serving as the pontiff’s protective detail, Kimball Hayden is crushed to learn that she’s involved with the assassinations.
While questions begin to rise as to why Shari Cohen performed the act, there are indications that lead to an elite assassin who was believed to be dead - Barabbas.
Now that Shari finds herself on the run from the CIA, is she the Barabbas of lore who was believed dead but has been resurrected?
Was she the tool of a conspiracy who was created to fulfill a dark agenda for a foreign power?
Has Shari Cohen gone rogue?
Or was she always a double agent?
As these questions plague the Vatican Knights, one thing becomes absolutely certain - Kimball Hayden now finds himself in a position to hunt down the woman he loves.
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