They live among us, the products of a Nazi genetic engineering program, gifted in intelligence, unmatched in physical skills-peerless in the art of killing. During the past seventy-five years they gained controlling interests in banking, news services, military technology, and internet information intelligence, forming a global conglomerate whose name is a death sentence to those who speak it. When Etienne de Villaine, an angelic guardian, stumbles upon a renegade former member of the organization, he learns of a Machiavellian plot to overthrow the United States government. As thousands die from a bioweapon unleashed on Chicago and Orlando and a nerve gas attack on a Los Angeles Mall, Etienne must race the clock to destroy an organization known as the Magnorum and its bloodthirsty members-the Optomorphs.