The crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy the energy connected to the birth of our universe. But the last blurry image from the falling satellite captures a chilling sight: a frightening look into the future a view of a smoldering eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican a mysterious package arrives for the head of Pontifical ancient studies sent by a colleague who had vanished a decade earlier. It contains two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic & a tome bound in human skin. DNA testing reveals both are from Genghis Khan
- the long-dead Mongol king whose undiscovered tomb is rumoured to hold the vast treasures & knowledge of a lost ancient empire. Commander Gray Pierce & Sigma
- joined by a pair of Vatican historians
- race to uncover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire to a mystery bound in the roots of Christianity's origins & to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.