Book #24 in the multiple NY Times best-selling Band of Open fire series. A WEEK IN MAY, 1636 It’s springtime in Burgundy. The bouquets are out and so are the cardinals-of Pope Urban’s renegade papacy, now on the run from your Vatican’s would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church’s older leaders possess converged upon the city of Besancon, where in fact the Pope plans to provide an ecumenical olive branch towards the additional Christian denominations with which Rome continues to be at war. Fortunately, Urban offers up-time help..LEARNING MUCH MORE approximately 1636: The Vatican Sanction He can trust Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzare’s theological savvy, Sharon Nichols’ medical abilities, and her hubby Ruy Sanchez’s keen-eyed encounter like a body-guard-in-chief. And even though Urban includes a fresh Papal Guard by means of Owen Rowe O’Neill’s Crazy Geese, Mike Stearns has loaned the Pope a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion-just in case. Which is prudent, since Urban and his tranquility initiative are not merely in danger from Borja’s assassins. There is another, more dangerous, group of professional killers around, directed by the man who almost killed the Pope before: lethal Spanish mastermind Pedro Dolor. Dolor hasn’t come to confess murder-he’s arrive to commit it.