A Congregation of Evils by Michael James Heath. A powerful pharmaceutical empire hides a secret so dark, its revelation could shake governments and crash markets. Beneath its polished image lies a historical web of Vatican intrigue, Mafia assassinations, and a lucrative black market in embryonic stem cells-where human lives were measured, graded, and sold. When Dr. Max Hart walks into what should be a routine board meeting, he finds the company back in Mondo hands and himself drawn into a deadly game stretching from the streets of southern Italy to the corridors of global power. The forces arrayed against him are ruthless, the stakes nothing less than life, death, and the moral core of modern science. A Congregation of Evils is a tense, fast-paced international thriller where corporate conspiracy collides with the underworld-and the price of truth is paid in blood.