A cardboard box is found on a shelf of a London library where a copy of Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it she screams before she falls unconscious to the floor. An elite group calling itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon. In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. In Tibet Buddhist monks search for a reincarnation while in strife-torn Kashmir a tomb called Rozabal holds the key to an ancient riddle. Father Vincent Sinclair has disturbing visions of himself and of people familiar to him except that they seem located in other ages. He goes to India to piece together the violent images burnt onto his mind. Shadowing his every move is a clandestine society which would rather wipe out creation than allow an ancient secret to be disclosed.
