The Dead Man's Brother
Roger Zelazny
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars
3.33
· 6 ratings · 256 pages · Published: 19 Feb 2009
Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough – but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger.
Now the CIA is offering to clear up the murder charge, but only in return for a favor: They want Ovid to fly to Vatican City and trace the trail of a renegade priest who has gone missing with millions in church funds. What’s the connection? The priest’s lover, a woman Ovid knew in his smuggling days…
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