An experiment 2,000 years in the making. Biogeneticist Andrew Shepard resurrects the memory of an ancient in a living human subject. Simon Peter is reborn. For the world's political and spiritual leaders, it is a crisis. For the faithful, it is a miracle. For humankind, this changes everything. Peter escapes from the BioGenera lab in a desperate attempt to return to Rome and to confront the Pontiff, while being stalked by a mysterious assassin intent on silencing him once and for all.