The Silence of Flesh

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He gave everything to God - except the one truth he could never speak.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From international bestseller Glenn Cooper author of </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Library of the Dead </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Last Conclave</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> comes his most intimate novel yet - </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a literary Vatican thriller about secrecy identity and spiritual burden.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Anthony Budd is a quiet reform-minded cardinal - young devout and untainted by scandal. When deadlock in the papal conclave threatens to fracture the Church his name emerges as a compromise. He accepts the will of God with humility. But beneath his composure lies a secret he has carried for decades - a truth that could upend everything he believes and everything the Church demands of him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Pope Innocent XIV Budd must navigate the brutal realities of Vatican politics the weight of his holy vows and the quiet threat of blackmail from a voice in the shadows. Someone knows who he is. </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And they intend to destroy him. </strong></p>