Former Marine Monsignor Anthony Morello, on sabbatical from the Vatican, returns to his Bronx, New York parish for a little R&R, but instead is drawn into a 100-year-old plot to destroy the Papacy - a deadly plot which pits the Sicilian Mafia against ex-Mossad agents
Randy Engel is a masterful investigative reporter of the homosexual infiltration of the Catholic Church in America ("Amchurch"), evidenced by her her 5 vol., massively well-researched The Rite Of Sodomy: Homosexuality And The Roman Catholic Church. The story she tells there is based upon thousands of reliable sources. In a similar vein, Marrano, although fictional, is very plausible, and chalked-full of historically accurate facts about the centuries-long plot against the Papacy.