
Tom Grace
2 SeriesTom Grace is an American author renowned for his Nolan Kilkenny series of thrillers. The series began with the debut novel, Spyder Web, in 1998.
In "The Secret Cardinal," the latest installment in Tom Grace's Nolan Kilkenny series, Nolan travels from the Vatican to Asia. Initially tasked with consulting on the Vatican Library, he is soon given a more challenging assignment by Pope Leo XIV. The Pope requests Nolan to secure the release of Yin Daoming, the long-imprisoned Bishop of Shanghai, from China. Despite the task's apparent impossibility, Nolan is chosen precisely for this reason.