Hunt for Fred-X

Buzzer Louis, Texas hill country tuxedo cat and retired Director of Operations (D/O) of Cats In Action (C.I.A.), is summoned to Italy by Césare Pepperoni Giaccomazza, his cousin who's head of the Rome office of Interpol to track down that evil international catnabbing and giant spotted owl Fred-X. You see, ol'Fred-X has resumed his nasty habit of stealing cats, this time Italian cats, whom he's planning to sell into international slavery with the help of his European girlfriend Frieda-K and a shady cardinal from the Vatican - Cardinal Umberto Uccello. Fighting the greedy forces of evil, the cats of the C.I.A. enlist the assistance of il Papa, the pope, himself, as they track Fred-X and Frieda-K from Rome to the Trentino to Venezia. Setting a diabolically clever trap for the evil owls with the help of a band of Greek stunt cats on motorcycles and a man with a wooden hand, they learn something about Italian geography and culture. And they learn to speak some everyday Italian along the way.