Contents
Preface
1 Murder in London
2 The Last Pope King
3 Enter the Black Nobles
4 “Merely a Palace, Not a State”
5 An Unholy Alliance
6 “The Pope Banker”
7 Prelude to War
8 A Policy of Silence
9 The Blacklist
10 Blood Money
11 A Nazi Spy in the Vatican?
12 The Ratline
13 “He’s No Pope”
14 The Men of Confidence
15 “You Can’t Run the Church on Hail Marys”
16 Operation Fraulein
17 Il Crack Sindona
18 The Battle of Two Scorpions
19 “A Psychopathic Paranoid”
20 The Year of Three Popes
21 The Backdoor Deal
22 “The Vatican Has Abandoned Me”
23 “You Have to Kill the Pope”
24 “Tell Your Father to Be Quiet”
25 “Protect the Source”
26 “A Heck of a Lot of Money”
27 “I’ve Been Poisoned”
28 White Finance
29 Suitcases of Cash
30 Burying the Trail on Nazi Gold
31 “A Criminal Underground in the Priesthood”
32 “His Inbox Was a Disaster”
33 The Kingmaker Becomes King
34 “As Flat as Stale Beer”
35 Chasing the White List
36 The World Has Changed
37 The Powerbroker
38 The Butler
39 A Vote of No Confidence
40 “A Time Bomb”
41 The Swiss James Bond
42 “The People’s Pope”
43 “Back from the Dead”
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About Gerald Posner
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Illustration Credits