An Italian immigrant named Big Al comes to America at the turn of the twentieth century and becomes associated with some of the biggest Mafia gangsters of the day, helps elect a president, and serves as a US envoy between the president and the pope. During this time he hides a shocking and powerful Vatican secret. In the late 2000s, investigative reporter John Tate is lured into a search for the still-hidden secret. He's met by opposing Freemasons wanting a new world order. The investigative reporter gets help from two unlikely people: Big Al’s son Giuseppe—a former American diplomat himself—and a priest who, as a boy, claims to have been visited by the Madonna. The more Tate digs, the more questions he has: * Was Pope John Paul I murdered by Freemasons in 1978, after just thirty-three days in office? * Did Pope Benedict XVI resign because he was being blackmailed? * Is the Vatican Bank the reason for the murder and blackmail of two popes? * Why has the Vatican kept quiet about the Third Secret of Fatima ever since it was revealed in 1917 to a future nun? The fate of the world hinges on the answers the investigative reporter uncovers!