This Haunted World

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...