The third secret [a novel of suspense]
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739329696 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0739329693 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 12:25:05. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Paul Michael. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 178527 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Cardinals -- Fiction Catholics -- Fiction Popes -- Election -- Fiction Fatima, Our Lady of -- Fiction Mary -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Apparitions and miracles -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Christian fiction. Suspense fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
Fatima, Portugal, 1917. The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words or if a message far more important has been left in the shadows. Vatican City, present day, Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, Pope Clement XV enters the Vatican's Riserva, the special archive open only to popes, where the Church's most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsure of the details, Michener knows that the Pope's distress stems from the revelations of Fatima. Equally concerned, but not out of any sense of compassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican's Secretary of State. Valendrea desperately covets the papacy, having narrowly lost out to Clement at the last conclave. Now the Pope's interest in Fatima threatens to uncover a shocking ancient truth that Valendrea has kept to himself for many years. When Pope Clement sends Michener to the Romanian highlands, then to a Bosnian holy site, in search of a priest, possibly one of the last people on Earth who knows Mary's true message, a perilous set of events unfolds. Michener finds himself embroiled in murder, suspicion, suicide, deceit, and his forbidden passion for a beloved woman. In a desperate search for answers, he travels to Pope Clement's birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the third secret of Fatima may dictate the very fate of the Church, a fate now lying in Michener's own hands.