This is an epic book combining fact and prophetic fiction, Malachi Martin, famed author and former associate of Pope John XXII, unmasks the spector that haunts every modern institution from the Kremlin to Peking to Washington, D.C. He show - with revelations that cannot be ignored - how the price of Church survival may represent the most shocking compromise and betrayal the world has ever known. Was often interviewed on Art Bell's radio show.
Back cover: Behind the closed doors of Conclave 82, a handful of robed men meet and debate. Some are ruthless politicians, some conspirators, some holy men. All are heirs to the accumulated corruption of 2000 years of history and directors of a multinational conglomerate with a collateral wealth of over two trillion dollars. They are the Cardinals who will select the next Pope....