They were the ultimate siege machines. Long believed to have been created from the seeds of the crops that Cain offered to God and that He rejected, the creatures that the seeds produced hunted, terrorized and wrought a path of destruction throughout Europe and the Middle East until their extinction in the 15th Century . . . Until . . . Weapons dealer Paul David Devon has long been marked for execution. Bane to both the United States' CIA and FBI, he has even found a way to anger the rogue nations who made him his fortune. But Devon has one more trick that will allow him to stay his impending doom. He has rediscovered the Seeds of Cain-and he has unleashed the creatures that they created upon the world