New Rome Rising

By Howard Fomby

The thrilling conclusion to the award-winning Sam Tulley trilogy!

He's back. And this time he's brought an army.
A firestorm is set to sweep across Europe, and William Tulley is holding the match. Can Samantha figure out a way to stop him before the entire world erupts in flames, when even NATO's combined forces can't slow him down?
Even as resentment over austerity measures and the mounting tide of Muslim refugees swells across southern Europe—resentment fueled by Tulley’s stolen billions—a newly elected pope is sounding a clarion call for a global war to exterminate Islam. A war taken straight off the pages of The Revelation of St. John, threatening nothing less than the annihilation of the human race. And only two people stand the slightest chance of stopping it. The problem is, Tulley knows who they are. And, even worse, he knows where they live.

The riveting final chapter in the award-winning Resumed Innocent trilogy, New Rome Rising is a heart-pounding tale of espionage and intrigue, of religious and secular ambitions intertwining to threaten the very future of humanity. A political and social tsunami ripped straight out of today’s headlines. As sociopath William Tulley labors step-by-step behind the scenes to manipulate the frustrated, forgotten masses of Europe, his goal is no less than a resurrected Roman Empire with him at its head, Europe’s leaders seem powerless to control the mounting chaos.

Meanwhile, a wave of cryptic Christian symbols has finally completed its long journey from Turkey to the Spanish seashore, and Tulley’s daughter-in-law Samantha and her friend, disgraced FBI agent Gavin Larson, are racing across Europe and North Africa digging up clues buried in long-forgotten secrets of the Christian faith. Secrets the Church and William Tulley would rather keep buried.

As the crisis mounts, Sam and Gavin find themselves always one move behind Tulley’s intricate game of global chess, and the timer is ticking. Even worse, Tulley now has them both in his sights. The hunters have now become the hunted.

Religion, politics, sex—nothing is sacred any longer to William Tulley and his mercenary army. It’s a win or die trying proposition, so losing isn’t an option for either side. And at the very heart of this furious fight to the death is one of the oldest, most historic cities of all. New Rome.

New Rome Rising finds Sam and her friends fighting desperately to stem a rising tide of nationalism and bigotry that infects seemingly every corner of today's world, even as Samantha dreams of returning to a simpler life back in Texas. But William Tulley has other dreams, other plans, plans he's been nurturing for many years. With both the Catholic and Orthodox churches as allies and with billions of dollars he stole from his infant granddaughter as leverage, William is finally emerging from a year hidden deep within the earth. And he's emerging onto the biggest stage of all. Even though he's been marked as America's most wanted criminal, a man wanted for the cruel deaths of thousands and, more specifically, the deaths of two FBI agents, Tulley's strategy is every bit as audacious as it is crazy—he plans to put himself above the law, make himself too big to fail. And as he finally pulls the lever on Project Eschaton and launches his global religious war, his plan seems to be working all too well.