Best-selling novelist Robert Harris said the dynamics of a conference contest that chose the new pope are similar to the hit TV show Traitor.
Last year, the author of "Seat" became an Oscar-winning film adaptation. The program is the task of the "faithful" contestants to try to solve the "traitor" in it - and is the "close analogy I can reach".
"Suddenly, everyone is swaying towards one person - you can't see why, especially, but that's going to happen." He told BBC News before the election to replace Pope Francis who will start next week.
“And in a fun way, similar dynamics do work in a conference, which is why it often produces surprises.”
But Harris believes this is a process that British parties should learn from British parties.
The author considers his book, the subsequent film, to illustrate that the ancient secret rituals in the Sistine Church are a “quite excellent means” to find the right person to lead the organization.
Only male cardinals under the age of 80 have the right to participate. The vote was conducted in full privacy, with news about the decision to announce the chimney that appeared on the roof of the church.
Harris said the party elected its leaders as a broader membership “not doing well”.
He said it would be even better if he saw the candidates choose who should be who should be who should be who should be who should be who, day after day.
He continued: “To lock the door and say you won’t come out until you come up with the result and focus – if you look back, the Pope is fine.
“I didn’t avoid studying novels that think it was a terrible idea (I had to write a novel to reveal how terrible it is.
But the motherland and the archangel authors believe that it is strange that women are excluded from the elections of Catholic priests and the new pope.
"Can you really continue to the future with such a huge following, the secondary, derogatory roles of women, keep moving forward?" he asked.
"I mean, it seems strange. Does Christ really want His words to be spread?"
Harris said the character of the Agnes sisters—a nun who speaks at a critical moment in his fictional meeting—is a “important” creation.
"I wanted to find some way to get the voice of women in the process, and the only way was to feed the women who were cleaning the room and running the hotel when the cardinal arrived," he explained. "I really wanted them to be part of the story."
Harris said Pope Francis’s office allowed him to visit parts of the Vatican when he was studying his novel, usually brought to outsiders.
"They showed me the most extraordinary things, and walked me down the corridor to the balcony, and the new pope showed himself to the huge crowd of St. Peter's Square," he said. "It was a breathtaking moment."
Harris said when he pieced together the process of the meeting, he realized he had "stumbled upon the treasure."
“I think meetings are a very good means to find the right people who can command the church to respect.”
"It's spiritual human and political drama," he said. "A meeting is as compelling as reading a will. That's the level of natural drama."
After the end of 2016, Cormac Cormac Murphy O'Connor (who helped Harris conduct research) asked to award Pope Francis in Italian.
"I gave him the book and he said he thought the translation looked good, but I don't know if the Pope had read it. If he did, he didn't say anything to me."