Explosive in both its speed and its own revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling writer Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck trip through the annals of the Cathedral and the continuing future of religion.

Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary seems to 3 peasant children, writing with them 3 secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the globe. The third key is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, about The Third Magic formula: A Novel of Suspense and not disclosed before 12 months 2000. When uncovered, its quizzical build and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful questioning if the Cathedral has truly unveiled every one of the Virgin Mary’s words-or if a message far more essential has been still left in the shadows.

Vatican City, current: Papal secretary Dad Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night time after restless night, Pope Clement XV enters the Vatican’s Riserva, the unique archive open and then popes, where in fact the Church’s most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsure of the details, Michener knows that the Pope’s distress is due to the revelations of Fatima.

Equally concerned, however, not out of any kind of sense of compassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican’s Secretary of State,. Valendrea frantically covets the papacy, having narrowly lost out to Clement in the last conclave. Now the Pope’s interest in Fatima threatens to uncover a shocking ancient truth that Valendrea provides kept to himself for many years.

When Pope Clement transmits Michener towards the Romanian highlands, then to a Bosnian holy site, searching for a priest-possibly among the last people on Earth who understands Mary’s true message-a perilous set of events unfolds. Michener finds himself embroiled in murder, suspicion, suicide, deceit, and his forbidden enthusiasm for a beloved woman. Within a desperate seek out answers, he travels to Pope Clement’s birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the 3rd key of Fatima may dictate the very fate from the Church-a fate right now laying in Michener’s personal hands.