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Urban the Ninth

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Country
  
Scotland

Publication date
  
1973

Pages
  
192

Originally published
  
1973

Page count
  
192

Publisher
  
Constable & Robinson

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-09-458990-9

Author
  
Bruce Marshall

Genre
  
Novel

Followed by
  
Marx the First

Similar
  
Works by Bruce Marshall, Other books

Urban the Ninth is a 1973 Novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. It is the first novel of a three volume series. It was followed by Marx the First and concludes with Peter the Second.

Plot summary

A Catholic comic thriller - In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I (successor of Leo XIV and Pius XIII) dies in an air crash. Urban IX has to face the Third Secret of Fatima (which had not yet been revealed in 1973, when the book was written) and a mysterious woman: perhaps, Pope Marx's secret lover.

A major subplot concerns the efforts of a mother superior of a religious order to get the order's founder canonized.

References

Urban the Ninth Wikipedia