The Hounds of Rome: Mystery of a Fugitive Priest by Tom Clancy

By Tom Clancy

Father Steve Murphy, a Roman Catholic priest, pastor of a parish in an prosperous suburb of Washington, DC, respected via his parishioners, believes he's approximately to be increased to Monsignor. yet, all of a sudden, he's transferred with out clarification to a short lived college educating publish. presently after, he's ordered to a prison-like correctional monastery deep within the Sonora wilderness of Arizona. Murphy is aware that he has been a religious priest and is questioned and indignant that he has been thrown in with the derelicts of the Catholic clergy. on the monastery, he unearths that he has been solid one of the pedophiles, alcoholics, embezzlers and different critical offenders who the church hierarchy is pressuring to surrender or be defrocked. confident that God desires him to proceed his ministry, he escapes. Murphy is now a fugitive, pursued by way of clergymen from the monastery who're little greater than thugs with others to "do no matter what it takes" to forestall him and go back him to the monastery, or maybe kill him, if worthy. Why, Steve Murphy asks himself, is his church doing this to him?

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