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A Pulitzer Prize?winning Author In the mid-1980s a young monsignor from the Vatican?s embassy in Washington investigated the problem of pedophile priests. American bishops ignored his findings. Then a young lawyer, hearing a client describe abuse by a priest that began when he was ten, suspected something bigger. The lawsuit he filed touched off a legal war of historic proportions. This is the explosive, sweeping account of that scandal, and the brave few who fought for justice.