
THE TETRAMACHUS COLLECTION
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Lester and Orpen, Toronto, 1976, believe 1st Canadian Edition. ISBN 0-919630-58-8. Hard cover, 287 pages. Yellow cloth with red lettering on spine; lower corners bumped with some fraying; spine ends bumped; some soil on boards. Binding sound with head and tail bands. Dust jacket with price intact shows edge and cover wear, short tears and small losses, age toning; wear at flap folds. Prior owner’s info and date inked on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked. ‘Deep within the Secret Vatican Archives lies a red leatherbound volume labeled “The Tetramachus Collection” whose contents will prove the Church’s collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. Only a handful of people even know of its existence, among them a humble Polish priest named Father Martin Belobraditz, secretary to Rozdentsy Cardinal Meyerczuk, the living symbol of Catholic Poland’s defiance of Communism and the man almost certain to become the next Pope. When Father Martin arrives at the Court of the Belvedere, ostensibly to bring the papers to the cardinal, and then disappears with the Collection, an unparalleled manhunt ensues. Not only may the document topple the entire structure of the Church, but it will assuredly ruin the career and aspirations of Cardinal Meyerczuk, whose Faustian pact with the Germans the Collection explicitly sets forth.’ (from front flap)