Book Log 2020 #55: The Warsaw Protocol by Steve Berry

The US wants to put a missile system in Poland, but can't get the approval of that country's president. But it turns out that someone has damaging information on the Polish president, and is looking to auction it off. The cost of getting into the auction? One of the Arma Christi, the seven relics of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The new US president orders Cotton Malone to steal one of these relics so he can gain entry into the auction and buy the information for the US, which will then use it to blackmail the Polish president into hosting the missiles.

Of course, there are others looking for this information, which makes his theft of the Holy Lance, and any potential success at the auction, a fairly dicey proposition.

It's all pretty much what you'd expect from a Cotton Malone novel at this point. I did find it humorous that these relics were the cost of entering the auction, as there are multiple claimants for each relic (for example, there are at least four Holy Lances out there). I can't remember if there was some way to tell if the relic was "real" or if the book just glossed over that detail. Not that it really matters, it's not like you read these books for their factual value.