Blood Pact
A Kirk McGarvey Novel
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4.5 • 25 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
David Hagberg's New York Times bestselling Kirk McGarvey series continues with a deadly mission to find a long-lost treasure map in Blood Pact.
A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost.
Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come to light, and the Spanish government, Cuban intelligence agency, and the Catholic Church are racing to be the first to claim it. Kirk McGarvey is approached by a shadowy organization that wants to beat all of them to the book—the Voltaire Society, a mysterious group whose purpose is shrouded in the history of the United States.
The chase takes Mac from Washington to Malta and finally to Seville, where he comes up against a fifth foe—one of the most ruthless assassins he has ever confronted—who has made a blood pact with the agents of the devil to find the lost treasure no matter what the cost.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hagberg's fast-paced 17th Kirk McGarvey thriller (after 2012's Castro's Daughter) finds McGarvey, a former CIA director and longtime field operative, trying to find normalcy in his new, quieter life as a philosophy professor at the University of Florida, especially in the wake of his wife and daughter's deaths in a failed attempt on McGarvey's own life. However, as many of his former colleagues note, trouble always finds him. A subsequent visit from a representative of the mysterious Voltaire Society sets off a chain of violent events that leaves McGarvey on the run, pursued by members of the society, the Vatican, the Spanish government, and a Cuban intelligence operation. Everyone is after the long-lost diary of a Catholic priest, supposedly containing directions to the location of four hidden caches of gold in the New Mexico desert. Plenty of action and an intriguing cast of spies and hit men will keep readers turning the pages.
Customer Reviews
Blood Pact
Good story. Kept me interested the whole way. Not as good as some of his previous novels. The best we're when Mac was the DCI.