When a shadow-government agency executes an entire town in East Africa because of what was seen, visiting anthropologist Gabe Turpin is also targeted, and pursued by a ruthless assassination team across the Great Rift Valley. Turpin begins to unravel the web of lies and cover-ups, to discover a profound secret, and a plot to steal the souls of world religious leaders, and thirty million holy men congregating on the Ganges at Allahabad's Kumbh Mela.