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1) The college
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Robert Brickford and his family are blind-sided by a delegation from the Vatican, reporting that Brickford had been elected to the papacy; that a deadlock College of Cardinals has been inspired by miraculous events to make him the supreme pontiff. Brickford is a married, Protestant American and inclined to dismiss the invitation to an interview by the conclave. His Catholic wife persuades him to accept and against opposition within the college he...
2) Conclave
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English
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The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth.
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Robert Langdon novels volume 1
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English
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"An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to his first assignment to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization...