Young scientists scheduled to begin work at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva are being systematically murdered . . . Medical school professor Hunter McCoy discovers that their deaths are somehow linked to his search for a lost book-a book written by a Spanish physician who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition in the sixteenth-century . . . A shadowy group with ties to high-energy particle physics has its own compelling and deadly reasons to find the book first . . . McCoy, trying to stay one step ahead of unknown ruthless adversaries is running out of time as his partner, a beautiful French archivist is set to become the next victim-unwittingly unleashing an international disaster of cataclysmic scale.