Relic of Time (49 page)

“At wakes.”

“I've taken it up again. It is soothingly repetitive.”

When Traeger rose to go, Dortmund said he would stay there on the patio. Telling his beads? Traeger shook the old man's hand and started for his car. Dortmund called after him.

“Watch your back.”

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Retired CIA operative Vincent Traeger spent years working undercover in Rome. But when the Vatican's secretary of state is brutally murdered along with a prefect of the Vatican Library, Traeger must not only solve the murders, but fight an unseen enemy and navigate a treacherous maze through history, faith, and his own past if he is to discover the astonishing truth.