During a crowded services at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks’ robes unleash a nightmare of blood vessels and destruction. But the killers never have come for gold; they seek a far more handy award: the bone fragments of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior . a treasure that could reshape the world.

Using the Vatican in turmoil, SIGMA Force leaps into action. An elite team of technological and Special Makes operatives beneath the order of Grayson Pierce and followed by Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome’s carabinieri, they may be pursuing a dangerous mystery that weaves through sites from the Seven Wonders of the World and ends on the doorstep of a historical, mystical, and terrifying magic formula order. For there are people that have dark programs for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the continuing future of humankind . . . when research and religion unite to unleash a horror not really seen because the beginning of your time.