The Canonical Order

"When a sniper's bullet leaves the Pope incapacitated, ex-CIA and Vatican intelligence operative Chad Stryker launches a one-man counteroffensive against radical Islamic terrorists bent on fulfilling an ancient Islamic prophesy to draw the West into an apocalyptic holy war. Stryker uses all of the resources of the Canonical Order, a secret Catholic Church intelligence organization with roots in the paramilitary Knights of Malta and the intelligence networks of the Jesuits, to stop a radical Islamic conspiracy that would destroy the Catholic Church and establish a new world order. In his mission to disrupt the larger apocalyptic plot, Stryker struggles to uncover and stay one step ahead of a mole at the Canonical Order, while searching for the elusive Islamic State mastermind behind the conspiracy, an Islamic State leader known as 'Che".'"--Page [4] of cover.