The Barbarossa Covenant

By Ian O'Connor

Past and present collide in the opening pages of The Barbarossa Covenant when retired FBI agent Justin Scott becomes a target for assassination while en route to Rome at the behest of the Vatican’s secretary of state. Before learning why, the reader is whisked back to 1940 wartime London where British intelligence is working feverishly on an audacious plan to thwart the imminent cross channel Nazi invasion. With England’s fate hanging in the balance, a papal emissary hand-delivers a sealed letter to Adolf Hitler from a source no mortal would dare ignore or disobey. The instructions are simple. Turn your armies eastward and destroy Communist Russia, or disobey, and face the Day of Wrath. England is indeed spared and the letter lost to history—only to surface without warning in the Vatican seven decades later. Penned by an unimpeachable source, it states with a God-given certitude that the time of the Dies Irae is now. A very troubled pope wants Justin to authenticate or disprove both message and messenger—an admitted all but impossible task.

In an uphill race against the ticking Doomsday Clock, Justin’s quest takes him to Lisbon, Helsinki and Edinburgh, then into London for a midnight meeting at 10 Downing Street where he uncovers an electrifying secret—and an earth-shaking truth buried between the lines of the apocalyptical letter. Fending off multiple fresh attempts on his life, Justin races back to Rome only to fall headlong into a trap sprung by men consumed with a blood-chilling agenda.