Vatican
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1st ed. edition
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: January 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 657
ISBN-13: 9780060154783
Subjects: Popular American Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Vatican City; General; Clergy; Catholics; Christian fiction
First sentence: In that late, cheerless spring of 1945, blood still stained the great rivers of Europe.
Description: It is the world's oldest political power, a vast financial empire, and a maze-like bureaucracy -- and yet its sole purpose is to proclaim and effect Christian salvation. It is the Vatican, and only an insider could reveal its complex secrets; only a bestselling author could weave its many strands into the novel that captures its full sweep and drama. Vatican is a rich and monumental saga with a scope and daring that slice through the protective secrecy of the Roman Catholic Church to reveal as never before the lives of men and women entangled in the extraordinary battle between faith and power. - Jacket flap.
Table of contents: label: Part one
class: part
title: The season before; title: The long last autumn
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label: Part two; title: Summer of the angel
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label: Part three; title: The second spring
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label: Part four; label: Part five
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title: The season after; title: Come winter
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label: Part six