Contents

Images

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