Keepers of the Book

In the North American desert, the moment the warp engine experiment was successful, the laboratory disappeared. One hundred and twenty-eight people, none survived. No one knows why. Except him. In the deep mountains of southwest China, a young man wearing a green preacher's robe had just completed a "binding ceremony." His job is to quietly patch up human beings when they touch the bottom line of heaven. But this time, he was three seconds late. Three seconds, one hundred and twenty-eight lives. There is also an address floating on the tortoise shell: 42 Lakeside Avenue, Geneva, Switzerland. There was something waiting for him there. Or rather - something was watching him.