The Vatican Must Go
An American Tale of Government Power and the Glory of Faith. It's the 1920's, Pancho Villa is gone, and Mexico is just settling into a new, post-revolution form of democratic government. Vatican influence over the psyche of the country remains an enemy and so, power brokers south of the border have written a new constitution which includes articles restricting the power of the church over the citizenry and to detach it from Vatican control.
Back in the United States, the possibilities are a welcome sight to certain people of power in a country where Protestant evangelism is powerfully representative of the American Way. If only a Mercenary Force could be dispatched to represent those American interests and keep the menacing spread of Catholicism throughout North America in check.
Enter Coloradan, Charlie Coates, who stealthily managed the bloody John D. Rockefeller strikebreaking campaign during the infamous Colorado Coalmining Wars.The government of Mexico chooses to ignore the atrocities and battles of the early 20th Century Cristero War which claimed over 120,000 lives. It was a long and dirty war selectively forgotten by the official history curriculum.The Vatican Must Go is one historical fiction account of what might have brought about all-out warfare against government attempts to stamp out Catholic Church control over the soul of Mexico.This historical fiction novel, The Vatican Must Go, by D. Grant Fitter is his second solid contribution to the Tales of Mexico sub-genre series, written in the great tradition of Graham Greene, Gary Jennings and Clifford Irving.
