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The Judas Protocol: A Mathias Green Mystery
Paperback
Series: Mathias Green Mysteries
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 644
Weight: 1.69
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The dead man was not alone.
When theology professor Silas Hawthorne is found seated upright in a locked archive vault-no wounds, no signs of struggle, one hand resting on an uncatalogued manuscript-the death is ruled an anomaly, but Mathias Green doesn't believe in anomalies.
Summoned to St. Ignatius Seminary, Mathias uncovers a manuscript that officially does not exist: The Judas Protocol-a suppressed Latin text tied to decades-old Vatican deaths under identical circumstances. The phrase at its center appears nowhere in canonical literature. It isn't a prayer. It isn't a confession. It's instruction.
As whispers of a second voice echo through seminary halls and faculty records reveal years of concealed obsession, Mathias begins to see the pattern: language designed not to persuade-but to command. Not to inspire-but to unbind, and someone inside the institution is still speaking it.
In this chilling second installment of the Mathias Green Mysteries, Matthew Pearce crafts a cerebral, atmospheric thriller where theology becomes weaponized, silence is complicity, and the most dangerous thing in the room is not belief-but repetition.
Some texts are meant to be studied. This one was meant to be followed.
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