Ballantine Books
May 2005
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Featuring: Father Colin Michener
416 pages ISBN: 0345476131 EAN: 9780345476135 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third
Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling
author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial
ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the
history of the Church and the future of
religion.
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.
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