At a European Union summit in Brussels, a shadowy conspiracy forms to steal secret technology from the Catholic Church; in a hotel bedroom in Krakow, Poland, a woman steals semen from a rich footballer; in Bautzen, Germany, a butcher takes delivery of human meat from a Polish murderer of prostitutes; and in Rome and Krakow, a scientist and a priest plot to use a drug which can manipulate the beliefs of millions of people. Inspector Tom Zalucki of the Krakow Police is faced with the hardest puzzle of his career. Why has a professional assassin expertly murdered a young Italian priest and a Ukrainian cleaner in the male toilets of Balice International Airport? Why has the Italian's body been stolen from Krakow City Morgue and then butchered in a cave in the heart of the Indestructible Forest? What is the connection with the fifty cannibal murders by the German Franz Tham in war-torn Krakow in 1943? Why is the powerful American head of the Catholic Order of the Galatians actively obstructing the police investigation? What is the link with a secret Krakow fertility clinic and a Roman biological research laboratory? How does the science of 'epigenetics' fit into all this? What is the relevance of the blackmail plot affecting a famous English footballer, being investigated by his influential PI, a gay Moslem Tatar, with whom Zalucki has clashed in the past? Aided by the beautiful coroner Ewa Kwiatowska, Zalucki must piece together the appalling truth, in a dangerous race against time that will pit him against a powerful secret group of Brussels-based conspirators drawn from all parts of the European Union hierarchy. His investigations will have tentacles extending deep into the darkest parts of Polish history and politics, and into the heart of the Catholic Church. Overshadowing everything though will be the hunt for the ultimate drug to control us all...by the manipulation of The Belief Gene.