Sydney Fitzpatrick, FBI forensic artist, is summoned to Quantico to help recreate the
face of a murdered and mutilated woman. The woman is identified as an archaeology student
and the daughter of the US ambassador to the Holy See. Sydney realizes that this is not an
ordinary case when she is abruptly dismissed from the case after the hit and run death of a
colleague working with her. This abrupt dismissal demands answers.
She decides to investigate on her own and teams up with covert government agent Zach
Griffin. Their hunt takes them to Rome, where they search for the "third key" to which her
colleague had alluded. The third key is believed to lead to a map, buried in a crypt in Rome,
which will show the way to a fabled treasure of the Knight Templars. During their hunt they
find connections to bioterrorists, a bad guy named Carlo Adami, and a Freemason conspiracy
against the government.
This is a tense and intriguing story. It follows a chain of real events that reach back
to the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a tale of intrigue, black ops, the FBI, the CIA,
the Knights Templar, the Freemasons and old and new world mafia figures. There is murder,
corruption and manipulation with government power not just in the past but in our time as
well. This has everything the reader can desire to keep his interest.