Urban the Ninth is a 1973 Novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. It is the sequel to his prior novel The Bishop, and the the first of a three volume series featuring popes in the then future of the 1990s. It was followed by Marx the First and Peter the Second.
A Catholic comic thriller - In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I dies in an air crash. Urban IX has to face the Third Secret of Fatima and a mysterious woman: perhaps, Pope Marx's secret lover.
Urban the Ninth is a 1973 Novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. It is the sequel to his prior novel The Bishop, and the the first of a three volume series featuring popes in the then future of the 1990s. It was followed by Marx the First and Peter the Second.
A Catholic comic thriller - In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I dies in an air crash. Urban IX has to face the Third Secret of Fatima and a mysterious woman: perhaps, Pope Marx's secret lover.