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Violence
Some
Moderate violence — intelligence operations; the conspiracy's defenders
Language
Barely any
Mild
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The Vatican's wartime past — what the Church knew; what it protected; why revealing it now is worth killing over
What this book is about
A friend of Gabriel's is murdered in Munich — a scholar who had been researching the Vatican's relationship with the Nazi regime. The investigation draws Gabriel into the highest levels of the Church and a conspiracy that could destroy a papal legacy. The Confessor is the third Gabriel Allon novel — Silva's most Vatican-focused entry.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Vatican conspiracy — the Church's wartime relationship with Nazi Germany
Religious institutional corruption
Intelligence operations and violence
Third in the Gabriel Allon series
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