A is for Armageddon

It is late in the 2008 presidential campaign. A far right third party candidate named Bartholomew Lord is a popular champion of conservative causes, but he has no hope of winning the election. Bin Thayer has unexpectedly joined the ranks of bestselling authors by publishing a novel that satirizes extremist philosophies. After her appearance on a PBS talking-heads program she and her fellow guests inexplicably become the targets of repeated murder attempts. They conclude that the assassins are after Bishop T. Ulrich Brown because he is engaged in an independent investigation into investment fraud involving the Catholic Church. But who is behind it? Bin and the priests of Saint Mungo's Cathedral in the small metropolis of Windfall Illinois join forces with an unlikely coalition of conservative and liberal political and social leaders to find out why, and to foil a conspiracy that threatens the world.