Michael's Mortal Sin

"Michael's Mortal Sin" is the last in a prequel trilogy of historical novels retelling one Chicago lawyer's reluctant crusade against an international drug cartel that picks up where "Michael's Cardinal Sin" and "Michael's Original Sin" left off. The final episode reveals Michael Avalov's heretofore untold role as head of the white shoes KATZ law firm in not only campaigning in courtrooms against the powerful traffickers, but in lending his inside "dope" to help authorities thwart the attempted assassination of anti-drug Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. Was it Fate or something else that all this happened on the anniversary of Mother Mary's first appearance & "Miracle of the Sun" at Fatima ... & just weeks after Michael & friends had witnessed the Pope's ally, President Ronald "War on Drugs" Reagan, being shot by John Hinckley outside a D.C. hotel?

Bringing down drug trafficking kingpins in USA courtroom battles in the first two novels set in the late 1970's was one thing. Michael's epic story against the international drug cartel & the Grey Wolf Mehmet Ali Agca's quest to kill the Pope now takes him, his fiancée & colleagues, as well as his readers, in a series of deadly confrontations in Rome, Florence & Venice. It's a matter of the final bets being placed by both sides, one in which the winner takes all. And, in the end, the ultimate question for Michael my come down to whether he has any choice … or, enough guts … in attempting to do something very bad to do good.

Come, join Michael then, in consulting the "Medici Art of Poisoning" & contemplating his final, deadliest & perhaps most mortal of sins ...