An ancient secret society. An ancient target: The Vatican. An ancient book that brings madness to all who look upon its pages. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks, and the clock is ticking.... Detective Sam Goldstein confronts terror in the form of two eviscerated bodies: a nun and a priest. Meanwhile, halfway across the world, a beautiful Mossad agent called Josey Schulman confronts an older and far more menacing evil. A book The Black Rose Notebook holds forbidden knowledge and secrets. Secrets worth dying for. Secrets worth killing for. The diabolical secrets of a world-wide conspiracy... Protocol-17. Brought together by fate, Sam and Josey elude the Brotherhood and follow a trail that leads them from the Vatican to an orphanage in Chicago and a twelve-year-old boy who holds the key. Together with the boy's aunt and a Rabbi, Sam and Josey learn that they are the only thing standing between the Brotherhood and its perverted agenda for a New World Order. But for these two warriors time is running out... their world is at the brink.