Harlan Rhodes

Harlan Rhodes writes thrillers about the one intelligence service that never appears in any budget.

His Vatican Operations series follows Nick Holt, an ex-CIA operative recruited into the Officium Obscurum — the Church's off-books intelligence unit, where the relics are real, the enemies are patient, and the line between faith and fraud is drawn in blood. From the Secret Archives to the Judean desert, from Interpol safehouses to the crypts beneath St. Peter's, each novel stands alone; together they form a single conspiracy unfolding across two thousand years.

Rhodes writes fast-paced, tightly plotted fiction for readers who finished Dan Brown and Daniel Silva and wanted something harder, darker, and closer to the truth. His books are published in English and German.