A trio of uniquely talented CIA operatives their mission is to explain the inexplicable: to debunk the work of psychic tricksters, magicians and frauds whose calculated deceptions pose a serious thrat to security and the national psyche. But the strange disappearance of an artist in New York coupled with the discovery of eleven charred bodies in an Adirondack moutain lodge - corpses that forensic evidence indicates are centuries old - suggest to agents Laika Harris, Tony Luciano and Joseph Stein that ther eis more to their assignment than they've been led to believe, that the truth they seek is rooted in a conspiracy that stretches back countless millennia and is centreed around the release of the most powerful prisoner of the world has ever known - a conspiracy that could shatter every belief about the origin of man... and God.