Dick.
Re your comment below:
> One, IIRC,
> featured a hit priest
> for the Vatican named Father Blackie
(something),
> whom the Church
> possibly could use now. Maybe by Greeley, though
I
> could be far off on
> that.
You're confusing two different series. Andrew Greeley writes
about Father (now Bishop) Blackie Ryan, who's an amateur
detective/clergyman in the Father Brown/Rabbi Small
tradition.
The series I think you're recalling was called "The
Inquisitor." It featured Frank Killy, former CIA agent, who
was not a priest, but a lay brother in the
"Militia Christi," assigned to the Vatican's Holy Office of
the Inquisition (which, of the purposes of these novels, had
evolved into the Vatican's espionage service). Killy wasn't a
Vatican "hit man" per se, though he did kill plenty of bad
guys in self-defense.
Every time that happened, he had to do two weeks of
penance.
The author was Martin Cruz Smith writing under the pen name
of "Simon Quinn."
JIM DOHERTY
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