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Giorgio Siderney Grissini was not a radical thinker, neither was he what you would call a down-to-earth man. He did not have his feet on the ground, and why should he? He was the Pope, for Christ’s sake. To say Pope Siderney was a reactionary, would be to underestimate the dogged dogmatic Catholic fundamentalist he had become and, still was, except he wasn’t, actually, the Pope any more. Well, he was Pope, but he was not poping, because he had been spirited away some time ago and, kept secure while a doppelganger, Fabio (Sid) Smith, had taken his place. It was one of the smartest moves ever made by Father Mike O’Brien and Mike knew this because his brother in all things dastardly, Jane Austin, Jack, or maybe d**k, as the name had begun to grow on him, had told him so. Except the
