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Book Description:
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 Marys wordsor 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 Vaticans Riserva, the special archive open only to popes, where the Churchs most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsure of the details, Michener knows that the Popes distress stems from the revelations of Fatima.
Equally concerned, but not out of any sense of compassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vaticans Secretary of State,. Valendrea desperately covets the papacy, having narrowly lost out to Clement at the last conclave. Now the Popes 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 priestpossibly one of the last people on Earth who knows Marys true messagea 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 Clements birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the third secret of Fatima may dictate the very fate of the Churcha fate now lying in Micheners own hands.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Marys wordsor 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 Vaticans Riserva, the special archive open only to popes, where the Churchs most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsure of the details, Michener knows that the Popes distress stems from the revelations of Fatima.
Equally concerned, but not out of any sense of compassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vaticans Secretary of State,. Valendrea desperately covets the papacy, having narrowly lost out to Clement at the last conclave. Now the Popes 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 priestpossibly one of the last people on Earth who knows Marys true messagea 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 Clements birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the third secret of Fatima may dictate the very fate of the Churcha fate now lying in Micheners own hands.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Top Member Reviews
Barbara L. from PERRYOPOLIS, PA wrote on 3/11/2007...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was my favorite so far. What was the third secret given to the children at Fatima by the Virgin Mary in 1917 and why the cover up? Why isn't this information shared with the people even though the Pope knows what it is? Enjoyable information about the order of life in the Vatican.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
You won't be able to put this one down, and I doubt that you will be able to guess "the third secret" either. The book is based upon the Fatima legend of the early 20th century. We just thought we had been told all of the secrets!
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Well written and fast paced.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is not dry, altho the story line might lead one to think it would be. Father Michener, friend and papal secretary to the Pope, is embroiled in the politics of the Vatican. Something is bothering the Pope and his health is suffering. A visit to Romania, at the behest of the Pope, brings the good Father into contact with the woman in his past. This is a very good read!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Another book in the mold of the Da Vinci Code. Very good read. Kept me interested the whole way. Lots of twists and turns.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
New York Times Bestseller.. Da Vinci Code fans will flock to this story...An excellent, tightly plotted thriller.
fast paced compelling Gripping page turner.
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Murder mystery
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Papal thriller about the Third Secret of Our Lady of Fatima.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
An excellent and enjoyable thriller! Very interesting premise, and a satisfying read.
Ann M. from WAYNE, IL wrote on 2/6/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Awesome - Very compelling! Fans of the Da Vinci Code will love this thriller set in modern day Vatican intrigue.
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Genny S. from JACKSONVILLE, FL wrote on 12/18/2007...A fascinating look inside the Vatican and its secrets. This book deals with the third secret of Fatima and the future of the Roman Catholic Church and its religious dogma. I thought it was great and now I want to read all of Steve Berry's other books. My new favorite author. Genny Sikes
Jody A. from KLAWOCK, AK wrote on 7/11/2007...Set in the near future, Secret introduces Jakob Volkner--Pope Clement XV--a German "caretaker pope" who, nearing the age of 80, was elected as John Paul II's successor. But three years into his papacy, the thoughtful Clement has begun to quietly express skepticism about papal infallibility and the Church's restrictive dogma, and to make odd requests of his longtime secretary, Monsignor Colin Michener, an Irish-born but American-reared priest whose vows of celibacy have been tested--and found wanting. Clement has also made repeated visits to a guarded sanctum within the Vatican archives, where sacred and historic documents are stored. And he's dispatched Michener to Romania to locate an elderly cleric who, in the 1950s, translated three cryptic prophecies, purportedly offered by the Virgin Mary in 1917 to a trio of children in Fatima, Portugal. Those secrets have since been fully disclosed to the world. Or have they? That’s the question facing Michener in the wake of Clement's shocking suicide, as he pursues a twisted trail of clues, crimes, and religious forecasts from Rome to Bosnia to Germany, accompanied by his former lover, journalist Katerina Lew. But making any additional secrets known to the world will put Michener in confrontation with doctrinal reactionaries, led by Cardinal Alberto Valendrea, the Vatican's Italian secretary of state, who's determined to follow Clement as the Vicar of Christ--even if that requires inventing a few new sins and flouting a 900-year-old prediction of doom for the next pope.
Darya M. from MORGAN HILL, CA wrote on 3/5/2007...Papal Secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, something coaxes Pope Clement XV to the Vatican's private archive--something concerning the revelations ofFatima. When the Pope sends Michener on a mysterious errand to theRomanianhighlands, perilousevents unfold and Michener finds himself embroiled in suspicion, deceit, suicide and murder. Suddenly he is force to face the very thing that has so distressed the Pope--and must unravel a mystery that will shake the world.
Charlene B. from GEORGETOWN, IN wrote on 10/22/2006...The pope is concerned, something to do with the revelations of Fatima. Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is sent on a mysterious errand to the Romanian highlands. The unraveling of a mystery - the third secret - could very well shake the world. Interesting read, well-written, enjoyable.
Kathryn G. from SIERRA MADRE, CA wrote on 10/19/2006...In my opinion, the best of Berry's books.
The Papal succession, the three secrets of Fatima woven into a search novel by the hero, a Papal secretary. Autho Steve Berry serves tantalizingly true tidbits about the Church, and weaves them and some imagination into a great, readable novel ala Dan Brown. You like Brown...you'll like Berry. Perhaps a little tougher read than DaVinco Code, but worth the effort.
Linda M. (Interesting premise for this book. Good mystery.
This book is hard to put down once you start reading it. Definately will enertain you.
Billy T.
Sheryl V. (My husbands book. I have not read it.
Very good book. If you like Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", this book is similar. Fast-paced and very interesting.