Kit Hennessey, a British agent operating in the new-Nazi underworld of Europe, comes across a goth girl named Tilly Herkup who knows some very unusual people, even by Kit's standards. He follows the trail on which she leads him from a religious agitator in Brussels to an even more ominous circle in Venice. They seem to be developing high tech, not for theft but for murder. And when he begins to grasp the global scale of their ambitions, he realizes he's uncovered, not crime, but Apocalypse. In a breathtaking chase to stop them, Kit, like the rest of humanity, is swept along a calamitous tide of natural disaster and man-made evil. It's the Apocalypse in real time. Our time.