After someone he has under surveillance is slaughtered - literailly - CIA agent Jack Dunphy is ordered to leave London and return to the US, where he is dumped into a tedious desk job that seems calculated to make him quit. Determined to learn why, Dunphy uses all his CIA tradecraft on the agency that has turned against him- and discovers the fragments of a story that seems too wild to be true, providing him with evidence of a conspiracy reaching back to the time of Christ, a conspiracy so vast and deep and old that the ClA itsel.f is but a cover for it.

After someone he has under surveillance is sl.aughtered - literailly - CIA agent Jack Dunphy is ordered to leave London and return to the US, where he is dumped into a tedious desk job that seems calculated to make him quit. Determined to learn why, Dunphy uses all his CIA tradecraft on the agency that has turned against him- and discovers the fragments of a story that seems too wild to be true, providing him with evidence of a conspiracy reaching back to the time of Christ, a conspiracy so vast and deep and old that the ClA itsel.f is but a cover for it.

Embroiled in a plot far more elaborate than he ever coul.d have imagined, with pl.ayers too powerful, and consequences too deadl.y, Dunphy must uncover the shocking truthor die trying...