Jeremy McBride is a dealer in antiquities and he is asked by an American museum to help to determine the veracity of papers that are being attributed to Pontius Pilate. The issue, he knows, is that if those papers are real and they are found to hold information that contradicts the Bible, that wholesale chaos can ensue. However, Jeremy has his own reasons for agreeing to help the committee verify the papers are real and not a hoax. His wife, Diana, wants a divorce and as a staunch Catholic, he is forbidden to have one. It doesn't matter that as a California resident, no-fault divorce is legal. He has pictures of her that can prove her infidelity is real. He accepts the invitation to authenticate the papers and steps into a war that is both religious and personal to two different women. Miriam Wirth and Lisa Bruce are sisters and both of them jockey for position with Jeremy as he searches for an answer to the Pilate papers. However, one of them has the perfect antidote for Pontius Pilate. A nuclear weapon that she will detonate in just the perfect location for Jeremy. But all of these things are going to be trumped by the perfect person. It's obvious if you think about it.