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Vatican Ambassador by Mike Luoma
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BERNARD CAMPION has killed for the Pope as an agent of the Office of Papal Operations, the OPO. But the old pope is dead, and Pope Linus the Second is no friend of the OPO! The adventures of Bernard Campion, the Vatican Assassin, continue. BC has helped Governor Marc Edwards rebuild Lunar Prime, but can he help build peace between The Universal Islamic Nation (UIN), The Universal Trade Zone (UTZ) and the New catholic Church (NcC)? And just what is the mysterious Project?
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Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Chapter One (19.07 MB) | BC and the Governor of Lunar Prime, Marc Edwards, contemplate the recent past. They look towards the future, and the upcoming election between Edwards and Daniel McEntyre, the widower of Governor Meredith McEntyre, the woman BC recently assassinated. | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Chapter Two (16.68 MB) | As Election Day approaches, BC gets dragged into the spotlight by McEntyre and the media. This does not help the prospects of Marc Edwards' reelection. | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Chapters Three and Four (14.09 MB) | Inauguration day is not a day BC enjoys. BC also worries that the new Lunar Neutrality Declaration is really an open invitation for the UIN to return in force to Lunar Prime, right on the UTZ's doorstep. | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Chapter Five (30.59 MB) | BC has been clubbed over the head and abducted! Or has he? Against his will, at any rate, BC finds himself in a meeting with UTZ CEO Richard Wentworth. BC confronts Wentworth about Fiza, Wentworth grills him about the new Vatican Mission's defenses, the new Pope, and he wants to know... Who is BC working for now? And will BC come to another meeting? | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Chapter Six (14.44 MB) | As BC comes back from his big meeting he runs into Marc Edwards in the Lunar Prime Port. BC tries unsuccessfully to avoid Daniel McEntyre. And Pope Linus the Second, who seems to have been avoiding everyone, finally gets in touch with BC. He wants to know about BC's recent meetings... | Dec 19, 2007 |
| Chapters Seven and Eight (23.86 MB) | BC heads to Vatican City to see the new Pope. His audience with Pope Linus proves interesting as BC finds himself tasked by the Pope with calling a peace conference! | Dec 30, 2007 |
| Chapter Nine (40.74 MB) | The Peace Conference is held on Lunar Prime. BC talks with Wentworth about power and control, and spots an old enemy in a crowd. | Dec 30, 2007 |
| Chapter Ten (24.89 MB) | RaRamifications of the peace conference are felt. McEntyre resigns and Erskine is sworn in as the new Governor of Luna Prime. BC makes an announcement so unexpected it even surprises him! | Jan 5, 2008 |
| Chapter Eleven Part One (17.39 MB) | Attendees arrive at Lunar Prime for BC's next peace conference. The pressure is on with such high-level delegates attending! | Jan 13, 2008 |
| Chapter Eleven Part Two (26.54 MB) | A strange illness is striking many people sick. Some people are dying. And it all seems to have started at the peace conference on Lunar Prime! | Jan 22, 2008 |
| Chapter Twelve (22.53 MB) | BC agrees to meet with a mysterious woman scientist. You just know this wonÕt end well for BCÉ | Jan 28, 2008 |
| Chapter Thirteen Part One (37.54 MB) | BC recuperates from an attack and acclimates himself in new surroundings. He also meets a pair of interesting people who have quite a lot to tell him... | Feb 9, 2008 |
| Chapter Thirteen Part Two (34.8 MB) | Revelations! BC learns all about "The Project" from his new acquaintances. He discovers not only that we are not alone, but that they may also be out to get us! | Feb 20, 2008 |
| Chapter Thirteen Part Three (35.32 MB) | The Project is revealed in full as BC meets the "old man" in a secret location unknown to most governments and principalities. | Feb 20, 2008 |
| Chapter Fourteen (18.68 MB) | BC is urgently called down to Rome, to Vatican City, where he finds he's been declared a Cardinal "in absentia"... And now must help the New catholic Church's College of Cardinals elect a new Pope! | Feb 28, 2008 |
| Chapter Fifteen (13.78 MB) | The new Pope is introduced to the crowd in St. Peter's Square. BC and Wentworth set up a meeting of the UTZ Council. | Mar 27, 2008 |
| Chapter Sixteen (19.17 MB) | BC travels to Manhattan to meet with the UTZ Council while he waits to hear back from The Project. | Mar 27, 2008 |
| Chapter Seventeen Part One (19.72 MB) | BC catches up with Anita at Vatican City. She makes a startling travel suggestion... Is it worth the risk involved? | Mar 30, 2008 |
| Chapter Seventeen Part Two (28.39 MB) | BC returns to the Moon, to Lunar Prime, and meets with Governor Amanda Erskine and his old friend, MBekke. He also has a very interesting conversation with a certain highly placed representative of the UIN. | Apr 9, 2008 |
| Chapter Eighteen Part One (39.97 MB) | BC heads out to The Project Asteroid Base to meet a ship that will take him to his ultimate destination, his historic meeting. BC is going where no human has ever been! | Apr 13, 2008 |
| Chapter Eighteen Part Two (52.23 MB) | BC holds an out-of-this world conversation. It's enlightening, but possibly deadly! BC may not return from it alive. But he does learn much he did not previously know. | Apr 20, 2008 |
| Chapter Nineteen (23.47 MB) | BC returns and is notified of a prisoner escape, a prisoner who has been on ice for a very, very long time. His headaches continue, creating worry and concern in those around him. | Apr 27, 2008 |
| Chapters Twenty and Twenty-One (37.95 MB) | BC decides to travel incognito to visit Al Salid on Mars. Is that really such a good idea? | May 4, 2008 |
| Chapter Twenty-Two (22.99 MB) | An old friend tries to help BC get out of a sticky situation on Mars. The Final Episode of "Vatican Ambassador"! | May 18, 2008 |
| Thank You For Listening (0.46 MB) | Mike Luoma here. Thanks for listening to "Vatican Ambassador" . If you liked it and want more from me, I have other titles on Podiobooks.com. They include "Vatican Assassin", "Vatican Abdicator" and "Synthetic Marmalade". I hope you enjoy them. And again, thanks for listening! | Jun 21, 2009 |