Here was an interesting post from Dreher: Gang, I know that my lack of specifics only makes Malachi Martin-like speculation possible, and likely. Let me say that this is not about Andy Greeley’s thing, nor is it directly about homosexuality. It’s about a breath and depth of cover-up that has not yet been reported on as completely as our team is about to. I’ve seen the front page for Sunday, with the photo, and read the stories that will lead the series, and it’s absolutely sick-making.
Who knows, maybe the DMN will come out with news that The Da Vinci Code has been proven to be true. (sarcasm off) Honestly, I don't see any scandal that could be more earth shattering than what has already been experienced, save sacrificing small children on the altars. That seems unlikely.
The Malachi Martin is the Windswept House novel. On Amazon, the jacket cover synopsis Windswept House reads like the Left Behind series descriptions of the Church at the onset of Pre-Trib Rapture. That has long been the opinion of certain Protestant churches, so nothing new there. Bordering on tin-foilish, IMO. Politics does make strange bedfellows.
Who really knows what will show up. Even I might be shocked. On the otherhand, The gates of Hell will not prevail against our Church.
Da vincie code was rebutted by a number of books. Do you know the books?
I can -- for example, suppose that there were priests who "shared" their conquests with other priests. Suppose there were websites, pictures, and "procurement agencies." Suppose there were all sorts of Catholic clergy, up to and including bishops (and higher?) involved.
The foregoing are pure speculation on my part. However, Dreher's hints about "breadth and depth of cover-up" make me think that the story will be something along those lines.
...except for the possibility of direct involvement by one or more members of the Curia in similar scandals/coverups.
I went to your link, and checked the summary for the book. Here is the first sentence. I'll tell you that it lost me after exactly six words. A much more interesting book would probably be Father Elijah, or anything by Bud McFarlen.
Anyway, here is the first sentence.
A Black Mass in the Vatican in 1963 gets Malachi's first novel since Vatican (1985) off to a wicked start.