The certainties of the modern world are about to be blown apart by a 3000-year-old conspiracy nurtured by blood and lies ... A man throws himself to his death from a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world. But few understand it. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others, it is what they have been waiting for. For Liv Adamsen, New York crime reporter, it begins the next stage of a journey into the heart of her own identity. And at that journey's end lies a discovery that will change everything.