The Campion Cipher

What tragedy forces a beautiful, trans-sexual Italian woman into prostitution, and how do Mafia connections lead to her becoming a Professor at Boadicea University, Daventry? Why does the Vatican send murderous monks to England with orders to kill her, and how do the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches contribute to the mayhem? How does one of these monks – one much given to self-flagellation – come to be imprisoned for the attempted rape of a fat chambermaid, and what links him with a retired MI15 agent found dead in a crashed car? What connects a wealthy young-man-about-town (complete with manservant), a rich eighty-two-year-old duchess, an incompetent ex-corporal, an extraordinarily ugly woman and the Chief Physician at a private hospital (once a herd-boy from Africa)? And why is Inspector Coad convinced that all this is a Al Qaeda plot? Find out the answers – and many more – in this hilarious, rollicking romp of a Grail Trail saga.