Crusade Author:Peter Watson Behind the scenes at the Vatican, the Pope offers David Colwyn, chief executive of the international auctioneering house of Hamilton's, a spectacular deal. In an audacious and provocative scheme to raise money for a crusade against poverty and injustice, the Pope wants David to organise a series of worldwide auctions to sell the fabled treasure... more »s of the Vatican: Michelangelo's sculpture, Leonardo dea Vinci's painting, Giotto's altarpiece - all will go.
Despite protests, the Pope's plan proceeds and the world watches as David, in the glare of publicity, raises millions of pounds. But now powerful forces range in fierce and treacherous opposition - and the Pope's projects go disastrously wrong, perverted by revolutionaries and international criminals. Soon a furious battle of power politics rages, a battle that can end only in a bloody and shocking climax...« less