War-torn Somalia, 1992 – A young Navy SEAL rescues a priest and ten children from a burning Catholic mission overrun by rebels. The priest and the soldier establish a friendship, a bond that would last a lifetime.

For the decorated hero, Joe Fagan, the CIA had come calling, his country needed him – to protect against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But as time went by, step by step the rules had changed, the enemy had changed, until he found himself asking – Whose Enemy? And with that realization, each assignment became one step further into hell.

The journey back had been long and hard, and for the those dark forces within the CIA, Fagan had become the enemy. But his friend had been there to help him, with a place to hide where no one would find him.

Joe Fagan, former US Navy SEAL, ex-Black Ops Specialist, was now gone, and a different man had emerged. Father Joseph Fagan is a Roman Catholic priest, and his friend, the missionary, is the supreme Pontiff – The Pope.

The Shadow Government – A secret organization, behind the Government, beyond the Government, pulling strings, manipulating markets, controlling economies, orchestrating world events – cultivating chaos.
And with each crisis, they reap the profits.
Now they are planning their greatest crisis – The Ultimate Crisis for the Ultimate Goal.

Behind it all, Dominic De Vaux, billionaire entrepreneur, Golden Boy of the Imperium, pulling the strings, using an ancient scroll that will tear apart the flimsy relationship between Christianity and Islam, and plunge the world into chaos as he seeks to enact the Holy Bible’s most famous prophecy.

Pope Salas I, a Pontiff reaching out to heal the conflicts and the wounds between all religions, is offered the opportunity to save his ailing church, to bring it back from its downward, destructive spiral of scandal and public disillusion. The final proof – for the church and one billion Catholics.

Is this salvation for the whole world, or the first steps to Armageddon?

The Pope needs answers, but encircled and confined by the secretive powers of the Vatican, and manipulated by the ruthless world of international business and politics, there is only one man he can turn to.

Father Joseph Fagan, a priest with a question mark over his past, is asked to investigate the hit and run killing of a close friend of the Pope. But it quickly escalates into a series of ‘accidents’ that take the lives of anyone asking questions. Which leaves Joseph Fagan squarely in the firing line.

But Joseph Fagan is no ordinary priest. He has sworn never to go back to the man he once was. But as events escalate, he is forced into a deadly struggle to prevent the ultimate Global Holy War. If he is to fight back he must call upon the special skills he has spent too many years running away from.

The Simeon Scroll is a high paced political thriller, that weaves along the fine line between fiction and fact, through that cloudy mist between what we are told or see through the media, and what could be the truth. A story that asks the question – What if the ultimate conspiracy theory is true.

This is author Neil Howarth´s first thriller novel in the Armageddon Trilogy, and as always cranks up the action and edge of your seat suspense.

EXCELLENT THRILLER
5 Stars Thriller.
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BRILLIANT READ
Really enjoyed this read, I feel as though I’m in the story, fantastic.
Eagerly anticipate the rest of the trilogy.
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REALLY GREAT READ
Really great read yet again. Like Neils 2 other novels, the characters are so real and place descriptions so clear, its like a movie in your head. Definitely recommend you give it a go!!
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