Vatican Assassin - Remastered: Recent Episodes
Mike Luoma
The First Book of The Vatican Assassin Science Fiction Trilogy. Remastered in July 2009.
Bernard Campion, aka "BC", is an assassin for the Pope, struggling with his work's inherent contradictions while trying to take care of “business” during an out of control interplanetary religious war in 2109. BC is a killer disguised as a priest of the New catholic Church. His current assignment? Eliminate the Governor of Lunar Prime, the free state on the Moon. BC has no idea this latest assignment will change everything...
Thank you for listening to "Vatican Assassin" - the first book of The Vatican Assassin Trilogy! The story continues in "Vatican Ambassador" and concludes in "Vatican Abdicator" - also here at Podiobooks.com.
After you finish the trilogy, check out The Adventures of Alibi Jones! 20 years after the trilogy's end, follow the exploits of BC's son Alibi Jones, a mediator for the Solar Alliance helping negotiate humankind's expansion out into the stars, in novels "Alibi Jones" and "Alibi Jones and the Sunrise of Hur" and the collections "Six Short Stories" and "Alibi Jones and The Time War of The Devrizium".
My books are all available as free, downloadble podcasts through Podiobooks.com. More info at GlowintheDarkRadio.com.
BC lands amid the rubble and ruin on Lunar Prime. The final chapter of "Vatican Assassin"!
BC is on the bridge as the UTZ Transport heads back to Lunar Prime... and into a pitched battle with UIN forces!
BC returns to Fortune Station, now a very different place than he left. The UIN attack in force!
BC comes under attack as he travels home from Wentworth Station, finds he must detour towards a familiar destination...
An old "friend" out of BC's shady past shows up unannounced to help complicate BC's life a little further. Meet Fiza...
BC and Governor Marc Edwards have a quick lunch, cut short as BC is overwhelmed by another killer headache!
BC travels back to the Moon and gets off on the wrong foot withs his new "tutor", the Reverend Swan. He suffers a massive headache on his flight back.
BC enjoys a short stay in Vatican City... aside from a rather unpleasant conversation with Pope Peter.
The Light's second in command, Father Kim, approaches BC with an alarming proposition...
BC has an encounter... hallucination... vision... dream? while he's locked up by The Light.
BC continues to resist The Light's attempts to get him to confess his sins - or is that brainwashing?
BC awakens in the company of the man he's come to kill, the former Cardinal and cult leader self-christened "The Light". BC tries to keep it together as they begin to work him over, body, mind and soul.
BC makes his way through a darkened section of Fortune Station, looking to find and kill the cult leader known as "The Light".
The "Paladin IV" is attacked by a UIN scout ship as they near Fortune Station! They may not make it! A little praying might not be a bad idea, after all...
BC meets Captain Adrian Longeux and boards his ship, the "Paladin IV", for the trip to Fortune Station. BC asks the Captain if he's ever seen the mysterious ships known as "Flashers."
BC preps for his new mission, but has to calm Governor Edwards' fears after Daniel McEntyre gives Edwards a UIN report on BC's true occupation. BC "levels" with Edwards about his work for the Office of Papal Operations, the OPO.
Vatican City is under attack by the UIN - The Pope isn't answering BC's calls. Lunar Prime is also under fire from the UIN. Worse, a possible spy catches BC trying to call the Pope on his covert communications unit - his cover could be blown! He's got to chase the woman down!
BC attends the funeral of Governor Meredith McEntyre. And Universal Islamic Nation representatives leave Lunar Prime for Mars as UIN warships approach...
BC meets the grieving widower of his latest victim in the Governor's Office - fist-to-face!
BC meets with The Cardinal and speaks with the new Governor of Lunar Prime, Marc Edwards.
BC makes his way through Lunar Prime as he attempts to get back to the scene of the crime.
Governor Meredith McEntyre has invited the opposing sides in an ongoing war to a peace conference at Lunar Prime, the city she governs on the Moon. Does she know she's putting her life on the line for peace?