One Million Years of War

When Clare Stone is assigned the task of writing an article about the impact of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code on popular culture, she imagines she's drawn the short straw. Then she receives a package that contains something extraordinary: evidence that far from the Priory of Sion wanting to keep Christ's blood line a secret, they created the myth to divert attention from something far more damaging. A man known to have been present at two key events separated by two thousand years of history, and whose impact on humanity has been greater than anyone who came before or after him. As Clare tries to locate further references to this man, known simply as David, a message is discovered scratched on the wall of a cave high above the Judaean Desert. Although faded with the passing of time, the following could still be seen: AD 33. My name is David. I leave this sanctuary at dusk. And the burden I carry could be described as heavy. They tell me I stand on the shoulders of giants. All those men and woman who throughout history have fought tyranny and oppression in pursuit of freedom. What happens next will determine whether their bravery and sacrifice has ultimately led to success or failure. A burden which, for the sake of my sanity, I cannot dwell upon. The events that led me here are not for the faint hearted. They are the culmination of One Million Years of War. A war between man's empathic promise and his bestial origins. And those events are about to begin again. Eight thousand years from now…