Two occulted forces wield an inordinate amount of influence and power in our world. One abuses children in the most extreme way imaginable, the other is the best-selling book of all time, and George St. Georges' unforgettable and endearing thriller, Ai: Opening, tunnels into the depths where those two collide.The island of Ai has been controlled for many millennium by a cult that maintains its headquarters underground, whose fingers are found in commerce, banking, and corporations; are wrapped around the throats of law enforcement; and intertwine with vice, slavery and trafficking. Not one soul on the island is untouched by those unseen hands that are rarely identified and scarcely even acknowledged. Walt Walls, a college senior, almost hears the cries of a young child sacrificed so the Group can maintain its absolute control and secrecy. A courier delivers a cryptic sixty-two word cipher that opens a multitude of paths Walt can take. These few words galvanize Walt and his roommate Dean into action. Together with their classmates, they discover how the same text can be used to either bring life or wreak total annihilation. St. Georges spars with The Da Vinci Code, is reminiscent of Kate Mosse's Sepulchre, illuminates like Harris's An Officer and a Spy, spotlights an ignored story in the Bible, and goes where the movie Sound of Freedom couldn't. Ai: Opening wrestles with the trauma that haunts so many and shows us how humanity might just contend with the evil that surrounds it.
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