Przemienienie (The Transfiguration)

The dark realities of the People’s Republic of Poland, where the boundary between good and evil is disturbingly fluid. A world of secret services, the clergy, and individuals struggling to find meaning in a reality shaped by manipulation, betrayal, and deception.

Captain Antoni Szarzyński, an agent of Department IV of the Provincial Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Katowice, appears at the apartment of a young priest, Piotr Czetwertyński. What secret will a former Security Service agent reveal to a promising clergyman grappling with a crisis of faith? Who is Antoni, and what secret lies behind the death of his parents and his childhood spent in a dubious orphanage? What was Operation “Hermes”? Was it carried out by the Security Service at the behest of the Vatican? What connected Vatican dignitaries with KGB officers? And did Europe in the 1980s stand on the brink of a war that could have changed the face of this part of the world?

Evoking the finest thrillers of Frederick Forsyth or David Morrell, Przemienienie is more than a suspense novel. It is a literary portrait of an era—gripping and thought-provoking. Inspired by the research of Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, the novel is not a work of journalistic polemic, but a fully realized story of entanglement and spiritual emptiness.

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