Troubled drop-out Max Blake discovers a shocking truth: his only living relative has been brutally tortured and cruelly murdered. Unbeknownst to him, she was a World War II partisan, leaving behind a puzzling assortment of clues and a mysterious artefact that he knows could unveil the truth behind her death and offer a solution to his problems. 

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     In his relentless search for answers, Blake unwittingly enters the orbit of a ruthless killer fashioned from birth by a homicidal maniac. Born on the mafia-infested streets of Mussolini’s pre-war Palermo, he’s obsessed with finding the artefact, convinced it contains explosive evidence that would rewrite Islam and destroy the Catholic church.

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     As dark backstories are revealed, destinies collide and the war against ISIS introduces new participants into the quest - a Kurdish guerrilla, an art expert, and a trafficker wanted by INTERPOL. All lay their hands on the relic, but only one possesses the intellect to crack the intricate code and solve the riddle, contrived centuries before by a desert-dwelling monastic to protect the earth-shattering answer to one of mankind’s greatest mysteries.