The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret perfect for fans of Dan Brown & Sam Bourne. In America a young man inherits a million dollars from a grandfather he thought was poor. Meanwhile across Europe old men & women are being killed in the most barbaric & elaborate of ways. & a brilliant scientist has disappeared from his laboratory in London taking his extraordinary experiments with him. Tying these strange events together is an ancient Biblical curse a medieval French tribe of pariahs & a momentous & terrible revelation: something that will alter the world forever. One couple is intent on discovering this darkest of secrets others will kill & kill again to stop them. Shifting from the forgotten churches of the Pyrenees to the mysterious castles of the SS to the arid & frightening wastes of Namibia Tom Knox weaves together astonishing truths from ancient scripture & contemporary science to create an unputdownable thriller.