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Vatican Assassin by Mike Luoma
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BERNARD CAMPION'S friends call him "BC". Not that he has a lot of friends. You don't make a lot of friends when you're an assassin. His mission: eliminate the governor of Luna Prime, Meredith McEntyre. His bosses, The Office of Papal Operations: The OPO, tell him she's been sympathizing with the enemy, the Universal Islamic Nation (UIN). His boss? BC works for the Pope. It's 2109, a time of war. BC is 'officially' assigned as PR man to the Vatican Mission on Luna Prime, the major city on The Moon, as his cover. Just a mild mannered, young, twenty-something priest working for the New catholic Church on public relations. But he's really a weapon pointed at the UIN by the NcC and their Earth based allies, the Universal Trade Zone, the UTZ.

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By: Mike Luoma
Hey, we just cracked a thousand!! According to the Podiobooks.com "author tools", we've just passed 1000 subscribers to "Vatican Assassin"! Thank you, everybody, for listening to my book. I do hope you'll continue on through "Vatican Ambassador" and "Vatican Abdicator", also available through Podiobooks.com! I've also just made "Vatican Assassin" available for the "Kindle" over at Amazon.com. They wouldn't let me make it free, so I charged 99 cents for it, the minimum I could. I'm still trying to get my stuff out there, and I want you to be able to get your hands on my books easily. Naturally, it's my hope that if you like the book, you might buy a hard copy. And you can do so through Lulu.com as well as Amazon. Should you care to... http://stores.lulu.com/mikeluomaBy: Mike Luoma
Wow, Paul, thank you so much for the kind words! Hope you get the chance to listen to the rest of the trilogy. "Vatican Ambassador" is complete, and "Vatican Abdicator" is live now, with new chapters every week. Hope I can live up to your expectations as the story rolls on! MikeBy: Paul H
I am not a fan of science fiction, yet I found myself looking forward to my 45 minute drive to and from work just so I could listen to more of The Vatican Assassin. Sure, Luoma could read a little slower, and maybe some of the dialogue didn't fit the gravity of the situation to a tee, but the plot was excellent, the book moved at a good pace, and it kept me glued to it until I finished, and popped "Vatican Ambassador" into the player. Very well done indeed. I'm looking forward to a whole lot more from this author - he's a winner for sure.
Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Chapter One (4.22 MB) | Governor Meredith McEntyre has invited the opposing sides in an ongoing war to a peace conference at Lunar Prime, the city she governs on the Moon. Does she realize she's putting her life on the line for peace? | Aug 21, 2007 |
| Chapter Two (5.67 MB) | BC tries to get away with murder... And tries to rationalize his line of work. | Aug 21, 2007 |
| Chapter Three (4.75 MB) | BC's trip through Lunar Prime, the old Reagan Station, continues. | Aug 21, 2007 |
| Chapter Four (5.33 MB) | BC meets with The Cardinal and speaks with the new Governor, Marc Edwards. | Aug 21, 2007 |
| Chapter Five (6.45 MB) | BC meets the grieving widower of his latest victim fist-to-face in the Governor's Office. | Aug 21, 2007 |
| Chapter Six (3.31 MB) | BC attends the funeral of Meredith McEntyre, UIN reps leave Lunar Prime as UIN warships approach... | Aug 27, 2007 |
| Chapter Seven (7.17 MB) | Vatican City is under attack. The Pope isn't answering BC's calls. Lunar Prime is under fire. Worse, BC's recorded as he tries to call the Pope on his cover communications unit! He's got to chase the woman down... | Aug 27, 2007 |
| Chapters Eight and Nine (4.28 MB) | BC comes to his senses, bruised and battered. What happened? | Aug 27, 2007 |
| Chapter Ten (2.52 MB) | BC finally checks in with his boss... Pope Peter The Second! | Aug 27, 2007 |
| Chapter Eleven (6.55 MB) | BC gets new orders. A mission to Fortune Station... | Aug 27, 2007 |
| Chapter Twelve (7.95 MB) | BC reads and preps for his next mission, but has to calm Governor Edwards down after Daniel McEntyre gives Edwards a UIN report on BC's true occupation. BC "levels" with Edwards about his work for the Office of Papal Operations, the OPO. | Sep 17, 2007 |
| Chapter Thirteen (15.89 MB) | BC meets Captain Adrian Longeux and boards his ship, the "Paladin IV", for the trip to Fortune Station. Longeux is a hardcore, evidently truly devout member of the New catholic Church and is only too glad to be transporting a priest. BC changes the topic, asks the Captain if he's ever seen a "Flasher". | Sep 17, 2007 |
| Chapter Fourteen (9.21 MB) | The "Paladin IV" is attacked as they near Fortune Station! A UIN scout ship opens fire on the ship. On the plus side, BC no longer has to worry about faking his way through saying a Sunday Mass for the good captain Longeux. On the down side, they may not make it to Fortune Station! And a little praying might not be a bad idea, after all... | Sep 17, 2007 |
| Chapter Fifteen (13.2 MB) | BC makes his way into Fortune Station through a darkened section of the orbital outpost. He needs to find and kill the cult leader known as "The Light". Half the place seems deserted, used for storage. As he makes his way towards the light, BC runs into cultists armed with clubs and pipes! | Sep 17, 2007 |
| Chapter Sixteen (14.92 MB) | BC wakes up in the company of the man he's come to kill, the former Cardinal and cult leader self-christened "The Light". The Light has BC thrown into a closet-sized cell. BC tries to keep it together as they begin to work him over, body, mind and soul... | Sep 17, 2007 |
| Chapter Seventeen (9 MB) | BC continues to resist The Light's attempts to get him to confess his sins... or is that brainwashing? | Sep 26, 2007 |
| Chapter Eighteen (19.99 MB) | BC has an encounter/vision/dream? while he's locked up by The Light. | Sep 26, 2007 |
| Chapter Nineteen (20.44 MB) | The Light's second in command, Father Kim, approaches BC with an alarming proposition! | Sep 26, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty (13.03 MB) | BC finally sees The Light? | Sep 26, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-One (10.2 MB) | BC enjoys a short stay in Vatican City... aside from a rather unpleasant conversation with Pope Peter! | Nov 4, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Two (19.12 MB) | BC travels back to the Moon and gets off on the wrong foot as he meets his new "tutor", the Reverend Swan. He suffers a massive headache on his flight back. Once back on the Moon, the Cardinal has an interesting revelation for BC! | Nov 4, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Three (4.65 MB) | A quick chapter as BC has both lunch with Governor Marc Edwards of Lunar Prime and another killer headache. | Nov 4, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Four (21.91 MB) | An old "friend" out of BC's shady past shows up unannounced to help complicate BC's life a little further. Let's meet Fiza... | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Five (15.5 MB) | BC is racked by headaches... one of which is Fiza! | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Six (8.22 MB) | BC and Fiza visit Wentworth Station. Wentworth Station can be a very dangerous place... | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Seven (8.98 MB) | BC finds himself under attack as he travels home from Wentworth Station, finds he must detour towards another familiar destination... | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Eight (7.51 MB) | BC returns to Fortune Station, now a very different place than he left. And the UIN attack in force! | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Twenty-Nine (6.48 MB) | BC flees Fortune Station on a UTZ Transport. | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Thirty (9.55 MB) | BC gets to ride on the bridge as the UTZ Transport heads back to Lunar Prime and into a pitched battle with UIN forces! | Dec 3, 2007 |
| Chapter Thirty-One (12.85 MB) | BC lands amid the rubble and ruin on Lunar Prime. The final chapter of "Vatican Assassin". | Dec 3, 2007 |


