The Number One bestseller. A religious conspiracy thriller like no other. The end of the world is coming â?" one body at a timeâ?¦

Someone is killing good people. Why?

A series of murders as far apart as the backstreets of New York, the crowded slums of India and the pristine beaches of Cape Town can't be connected. Can they?

Rookie New York Times reporter Will Monroe thinks not - until his beautiful wife Beth is kidnapped. The men holding her seem ready to kill without hesitation.

Desperate, Will follows a sinister trail that leads to a mysterious cult, fanatical followers of one of the world's oldest religions - right on his own doorstep. Now he must unravel ancient prophecies and riddles buried deep in the Bible to find a secret worth killing for, a secret on which the fate of humanity may depend. But with more victims dying every hour and each clue wrapped in layers of code, time is running out ...

'Compulsive reading ¿ successfully blends ancient teachings with the highly charged ways of the 21st century ¿ bears all the hallmarks of a blockbuster' Daily Express

'More readable than The Da Vinci Code - the sense of menace is darker and the characters more believable' Esquire