The world is awash in conflict and suffering. Every day, war, disease, and environmental upheaval spread anguish further across the globe. Some believe the biblical End Times have arrived; others believe a civilization too often driven by greed has simply begun the inevitable process of devouring itself. And amid the fear and chaos walks a shadow: in the war-torn hills of Afghanistan. In the tragedy-wracked hills of Hiroshima. He is called by many names in many places -- and where he walks, he brings death. Two men -- one whose ivory tower has been shattered by scandal, another sprawled on life's rock bottom -- unknowingly hold mankind's only hope for survival. For a war unlike any other is about to be declared -- one in which 10,000 years worth of sins and pain come back to haunt us...