# The Vatican Rip

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- Authors: [Jonathan Gash](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-grant)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-11-07

## Description

I always think that a genuine friend is like a genuine antique - you'd go a long way to find one and you'd do anything to stop one getting broken. When an Italian gentleman made me an offer I couldn't refuse, stopping my friends from getting broken meant stealing a very valuable antique. 'Somebody else has got my antique and I want it back,' was how he put it. 'Who has it?' I asked. Without a flicker of a smile he replied, 'The Pope.' If you think of the Vatican as a big church where the Pope lives, then think again. It is a complete walled city with its own shops, its own bank and its own armed security in the shape of the ridiculously costumed Swiss Guards. Look a bit daft, don't they? But they're well trained and well armed young men. Well, if stealing antiques from the Pope was easy, everybody would be doing it, wouldn't they?

## Editions

### The Vatican Rip

- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-14-7210-289-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-11-07
- Language: en_GB

### The Vatican Rip

- Publisher: constable
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7210-290-4
- Published: 2013-11-07
- Language: en_GB