"Michael's Mortal Sin" is the last in a trilogy of historical novels retelling one Chicago lawyer's reluctant crusade against an international drug cartel that picks up where "Michael's Cardinal Sin" and "Michael's Original Sin" left off. The final episode reveals Michael Avalov's heretofore untold role as head of the white shoes KATZ law firm in not only campaigning in courtrooms against the powerful traffickers, but in lending his inside "dope" to help authorities thwart the attempted assassination of anti-drug Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. Was it Fate or something else that all this happened on the anniversary of Mother Mary's first appearance & "Miracle of the Sun" at Fatima ... & just weeks after Michael & friends had witnessed the Pope's ally, President Ronald "War on Drugs" Reagan, being shot by John Hinckley outside a D.C. hotel? Bringing down drug trafficking kingpins in USA courtroom battles in the first two novels set in the late 1970's was one thing. Michael's epic story against the international drug cartel & the Grey Wolf Mehmet Ali Agca's quest to kill the Pope now takes him, his fiancée & colleagues, as well as his readers, in a series of deadly confrontations in Rome, Florence & Venice. It's a matter of the final bets being placed by both sides, one in which the winner takes all. And, in the end, the ultimate question for Michael my come down to whether he has any choice … or, enough guts … in attempting to do something very bad to do good. Come, join Michael then, in consulting the "Medici Art of Poisoning" & contemplating his final, deadliest & perhaps most mortal of sins ... But, first contemplate for a moment the unlikely scenario upon which "Michael's Mortal Sin" (and "Michael's Original Sin") is/are based and really did happen: The attempts on President Reagan's and Pope John Paul II's lives within weeks of one another in 1981; both leaders' dedication to the anti-drug movement of their times; both leaders' fervent opposition to Communist Russia; and the Pope's deadly encounter in St. Peter's Square on the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima decades after it was predicted by the Marian apparition in 1917. Consider, too, the popular polish Pope's historical visit to Chicago in 1979 and his (fictional) first encounter in "Michael's Cardinal Sin" with Michael Avalov and the international drug cartel both were fighting in the courts of law as well as on the big city streets around the world. As in each of the "prequel" trilogy novels as well as in the earlier "Nth Degree" trilogy novels, perhaps (again) the real question needing to be answered as to what happened to the players is: "Was it Fate, Free Will, or Something Else"?

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