By Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
Viking. xvii + 317 pages. £16.99
Among the most diabolical devices of the Papacy, the Inquisition - founded in 1234 - should always be remembered. In autumn 1999, even Hindus recalled it as the Pope prepared to visit India, for the Inquisition had been active there in Goa, as well as in Latin America.
