Power comes from knowledge. Knowledge from information.

Vatican retains and extends power with information. Vatican is constantly ravenous for more. Vatican sends people like Pinion for information, whatever the cost.

From a frozen Swiss winter to summer in Tuscany. Pinion stays one step ahead of the Inquisition, teasing information from the recalcitrant and reluctant for his masters in St. Peter's.

Follow the danger in these five original stories:

• The Merisi Manuscript
• The Triesen Talks
• The Laghi Plans
• Passage to London
• The Roman Rescue

In Pinion's world, indecision is fatal. Ally or enemy. Which are you?