Book Three : Death & Discernment
With the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved, Americans relax for the time being. But the Milford Novitiate is in turmoil with souls endangered and lives at stake.
Oksana Volkova relocates a safe distance from the Milford Novitiate and allows her high-level espionage to proceed without incident.
Having had an unexpected spiritual awakening, Charley Coogan settles into the comfortable daily routine and feels his spiritual life deepen. But the assassination of President Kennedy and revelations about Charley’s Master of Novices shatters everything he has come to believe.
An enigmatic Jesuit trouble-shooter is dispatched from Rome to untangle the disasterous and Top Secret mess.
The White House, the Kremlin and the Vatican agree that the world should never know anything about the Russian spy’s success.
But can the Visitor from Rome succeed?