Former soldier Marc O’Hara is acting as a reader for an intelligence service in London when the call comes in. He’s to be re-activated as a field agent and assigned to solve a 13th century alchemical riddle.
A terrorist cell called the Red Death has the same goal. If the terrorists solve the clues first, they will unleash an ancient flesh-eating toxin. Even more alarming, they will possess the key to the most shrouded secret in history.
O’Hara and his partner, Kim Shahrokh, must follow obscure clues from Paris to Egypt and Syria. Along the way, they discover hidden chambers full of lost ancient books, medieval automatons and moldering creatures, some not as dead as they should be.
The more they uncover, the more O’Hara isn’t sure who to trust in this quest. Is history a myth? Or has he simply ventured into a world populated by murderous madmen and fanatics.
