"He's had his chance, and he hasn't showed himself for two thousand years. Let's just say that we got tired of waiting, and decided to bring him back on our terms." A mysterious and extremely wealthy group has been funding a genome research institute in Milan, Italy, that operates with such tight secrecy that even the researchers do not know its overriding purpose. But American Scott Charleston begins to suspect that the purpose of the project is to engineer a specific person. Soon after he is found snooping around in the office, he disappears. His father's inquiries into his disappearance quickly hit a brick wall, at which point he hires John Dixon, a private investigator with a checkered past. Joined by a charming woman who was close to Scott, and a marginalized priest with a history of fighting evil within the Church, they begin the search for Scott, attempting to uncover the secrets of the research institute. The trail leads them to the world's most powerful banking family, whose ruthless executive, Jakob Schwarzenthal, wastes no time in trying to kill them. Failing, he places them on terror watch lists, and mobilizes the entire information grid to find and kill them, forcing them to accept help from an unlikely source. As they learn the truth behind the Illuminati plan, they confront the plot to own and control a genetic replica of Jesus, and all of the ramifications of that truth.
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