description: Two pregnant teenagers -- one in privileged Newport, Rhode Island, one in a poor, remote Irish village -- have nothing in common except for the stunning fact that both are virgins. Private detective and former nun Anne Fitzgerald is called by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate ami to watch over the girls as they come to term.But Anne hasn't been told the secret prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima known only to the Pope: one of these girls will give birth to the Messiah while the other will bear the child of Satan. Caught between the certainty of science and the possibility of a miracle, Anne finds herself at thc center of a terrifying battle on which the fate of humanity hangs.-- James Patterson's most recent bestseller, Pop Goes the Weasel (October 1999), had a first printing of one million copies.-- Patterson's fans love all of his books.-- When the Wind Blows (1998), a non-Alex Cross novel, sold over 600,000 copies in hardcover and shot straight to #1 in paperback (1999).-- Cradle and All is an entirely reimagined version of a 1980 Patterson novel, Virgin, long out of print.-- Cradle and All has been chosen as a Main Selection of the Literary Guild.
language: English
title: Cradle And All
titlecomplete: Cradle And All
characters: Justin O'Carroll, Anne Fitzgerald, Nicholas Rosetti
genres: Fiction, Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Religion, Horror, Detective, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Novels
ratings_count: 33347
publisher: Hachette Audio