It is with some relief that I note that this particular work of fiction is now out of print. Briefly, it purports to show how the Pope and most if not all of the rest of the Vatican authorities have lost the plot, so to speak, and are working to destroy the Catholic Church from within. Interesting asides purport to show that Paul VI was replaced in mid-reign by an imposter (identified by slightly different-shaped ears) and that John Paul II fathered a love-child. It is just about possible - just about - to read this as a work of satirical fiction. That its author intended it to be read as fact is very nearly beyond belief.

After ending the reading of this book, I must conclude that the author was unable to proof his three main and very serious assertions: Pope John XXIII's masonic initiation; Pope Paul VI's double; and Pope John Paul II's ilegitimate son. Suming up, an obvious failure.

Nevertheless, Piers Compton clearly demonstrates that Catholic Church, after the Second Vatican Council, was greatly infiltrated at the highest levels of the Roman Curia by masonic and socialist/communist agents, a fact that explains the turmoil faced by Church since then.

This book deserves to be rated with two and half stars.