Pirates of the Caribbean meets time-traveling heroes & godlike aliens in this sequel to Sunset of the Gods & Blood of Heroes part of Steve White's Jason Thanou series Special operations officer Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority must once again plunge into Old Earth blood-drenched past to combat the plots of the Transhumanist underground to subvert that past & create a secret history leading up to the fulfillment of their mad dream of transforming humanity into a race of gods & monsters Jason & his companions travel to the seventeenth century to encounter the real pirates of the Caribbean
- including a beautiful she-pirate who turns out to be Transhumanist renegade! To Jason horror he also learns that the Teloi aliens who were the grim reality behind the pagan pantheons of antiquity
- aliens Jason believed he successfully destroyed
- are still active & aiding the Transhumanists in founding an unspeakable cult What more these are a different
- & far more dangerous
- breed of Teloi than before!