The Tetramachus collection

by Philippe Van Rjndt

First edition. A collection of Vatican documents are stolen. The secrets they hold about the Church's association with the Nazis during the Second World War are sought by everyone from the Church to the Italian Left. Jacket chipped. 287 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Genres: Thriller

287 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Bodosika Bodosika · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starting Words: Vatican city covers an area of seventeen square miles in the form of a trapezoid within Rome.
Ending Words: In the end,he kept his word to her.

A Polish Priest who is a holocaust survival stole The Tetramachus Collection (A chronicle of the activities of The Nazis and the Vatican during the second world war) and gave it to Sabatini (a millionaire Marxist Italian publisher) to publish but there are many important persons who wished the Tetramachus collection not to be published. Some of this important persons are within the Vatican while some are outside the Vatican and both groups are ready to do anything including but not limited to murder to stop this publication and before you know it dead bodies started appearing.
This book is an interesting book though I hardly read religious fiction but this one was not about religion but about the working of the Vatican, I guess I know more about the Vatican city through this book than any other book I have read,the suspense was superb, the dialogue excellent, characters loveable and the setting was marvellous. If you like Robert Ludlum or Frederick Forsythe you will surely love this book,I will give this book 4 Stars and I hope to read all the author's work.

NOTE: I NOTICED SOME TOPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS ON PAGE 42 ("there will time for that) AND PAGE 55 (every instead of ever)

[Heather Noble]

a good read which is hard to put down.

[Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nazi/Vatican thriller.

[Jim Maass · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is under the thriller genre, but in a lot of the content of the book seemed to fall under historical fiction genre also. The reason for only a three star rating is because the author would have interruptions from the main story line to point out a historical item. For me, it made it difficult to follow the flow of the main story. I have read many historical fiction books which the authors blend some historical information without interrupting the main story.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

It took me years to find a copy of this book and two days to read. Excellent. Hard to believe it was the first book written by the author and that he was only 26 when it was published. The research alone is astounding. Well worth the search and wait. Wish I had google in 1980 when I first heard of this book.