James Patterson: Virgin (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
"A CHILLING, UNFORGETTABLE STORY! ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS IN YEARS!" -- JAY ANSON, AUTHOR OF THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE US NOW.
As the world prays, the Vatican watches, waiting in horror as the terrifying prophesy long held secret is about to be fulfilled.

One young virgin shall bear the child of light.
Another shall spawn the beast of everlasting darkness.

James Patterson: Virgin. Golden Apple Publishers, ISBN: 0553198246 (December, 1984), 252 p., $3.50.

James Patterson: Virgin (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
"A CHILLING, UNFORGETTABLE STORY! ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS IN YEARS!" -- JAY ANSON, AUTHOR OF THE AMITYVILLE HORROR

ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE US NOW.
As the world prays, the Vatican watches, waiting in horror as the terrifying prophesy long held secret is about to be fulfilled.

One young virgin shall bear the child of light.
Another shall spawn the beast of everlasting darkness.

James Patterson: Virgin. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553146521 (December, 1984), 252 p., $2.95.

James Patterson: Virgin (USA 1980)

From the Publisher:
Vividly imagined in the best-selling tradition of Ira Levin and Thomas Tryon, now comes a breath-taking novel of inspiration and unspeakable terror...

VIRGIN
The year is 1987, a time centuries removed from the first humble beginnings in Bethlehem, seventy years after the miracle at Fatima when the Blessed Virgin appeared to give a message to mankind. The message was a promise -- and a warning. Now, as prophesied, the signs were beginning:

- hoards of snakes invading the hillsides of Mexico's Madre Oriental Mountains
- sightings of a massive comet hurtling toward the earth
- reports from Newport, Rhode Island, of a young girl, mysteriously pregnant -- and a virgin

These were the first indications, a series of unconnected events, baffling and mysterious, except to one man who recognized them for what they were: omens, clear warning that the Virgin's promise was about to be fulfilled with an event so extraordinary that it threatened to explode the natural order of creation and send it spinning into chaos. The Second Coming was at hand...

James Patterson: Virgin. McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070488207 (May, 1980), 252 p., $10.95.