The certainties of modern life are about to be shattered by an ancient conspiracy that has been nurtured by blood and lies. A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world - but few understand it. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others in the know, it is what they have been waiting for.
Summary: The certainties of modern life are about to be shattered by an ancient conspiracy that has been nurtured by blood and lies. A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world - but few understand it. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others in the know, it is what they have been waiting for.