A priceless artifact worth killing for. A conspiracy beyond imagining. A mystery both wondrous and deadly…. From revelation to startling revelation, Philip Carter delivers a razor-sharp thriller that sets a new standard for compulsive international suspense.

           Across the nation, three seemingly random individuals have ties with a woman who, decades ago, fled a Soviet prison camp with an ancient knowledge people would sell their souls to possess. Drawn into this web of danger are Ry O’Malley, a man on the run for his life; and Zoe Dmitroff, a San Francisco attorney caught up in her own deadly legacy. No one can be trusted in the corrosive game of cat-and-mouse that ensues — one that spans a century, from the frozen Siberian terrain to the serpentine streets of Paris, from the explosive secrets of a doomed Hollywood legend to the deadly machinations of the KGB and the highest office of the United States…and ultimately to the guardians of an ancient religious icon.