Belief in good compels belief in evil, and evil is not just the absence of good. Evil is manifest. Created by God, evil has forged its own identity and is invested in a destiny of its own making. Unwittingly, evil is a lesson for mankind, our harshest teacher through the ages of our evolution. This is a small part of that long story. A good man is targeted for destruction. He survives and is viciously inducted into the hidden reality of shadow existence. Here he finds unexpected allies. Never known, never chronicled, and never suspected in a thousand years of existence, this shadow group has been tracking evil since the first crusade. He witnesses with his new allies the destruction of the complex systems that hold our modern civilization together. Those who would not serve in Heaven have begun their end game, ten thousand years in the planning.