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"Duj, this is God, calling from Heaven. I can't believe I got through. I'm one of your biggest fans!"

Mike is recruited into a quasi-scientific Defense Department research team based in San Diego. He starts his job with the "Joint Reconnaissance Study Group" on San Diego's Point Loma peninsula. Ten women and men comprise the JRSG. Several loyal allies, and deadly opponents, soon emerge.

The JRSG and its friends search for information on unusual national security-related issues and mysteries. They look into crop circles, dolphin intelligence, deep DNA memory theories, UFOs, ESP, modern physics, near-death experiences, so-called "Earth changes" and "pole shift" concepts, and Native American culture and legends.

Connections between these areas are discovered as well as links to the past and the future of Earth and the human race.

The women and men of the research group explore ancient questions and modern discoveries crucial to the evolution and survival of humanity. Group members explore Arizona, the "Four Corners" region, and Oahu, Hawaii.

They face experiences that are scientific, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The group uncovers dangerous threats to their investigation, to the United States, Earth, and human civilization.

Mike feels he's getting in over his head at times. Even with the support and fellowship of the research group and friends, he faces extreme circumstances alone.

In the midst of dangers and challenges, there is romantic heat between him and Amy Mella, one of the group's dolphin researchers.

This is also a story of relationships between women and men, military and civilian, the intelligence community and the average American. It is an exploration of phenomena and mysteries that now rightly hold the interest and attention of millions of people worldwide.

The story climaxes in a hidden canyon on the Navajo Nation in far northeastern Arizona. In a kiva, one of the large sunken stone circles of the ancient Anasazi people, many VIPs attend a special field conference. Sudden discoveries, dangers, and the experience of the strange unknown shock those present.

A fax arrives, informing Washington consultant Greg Tapscott that he is "the butterfly about to set off a storm that spreads around the world." Greg initially assumes it's some obscure joke. But it's no joke: the friend who sent is already dead, murdered to block the truth he uncovered.

Moments later, Greg's father calls to say that he's just been offered "the truth" about what happened to his brother, Greg's uncle, Paul Tapscott, an OSS agent missing since D-Day.

As Greg chases that elusive lead, from Washington to La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast of France, to England, the Alps, and back to Washington, he finds that, after 60 years of indifference, the CIA is suddenly interested in what happened to Paul Tapscott . . . because Paul's name has begun appearing in the "chatter" of a supposed terrorist group.

"To find the truth about your uncle," Greg is told, "you must first find what it was that he found back in 1944."

Was it, as one source says, "the most powerful weapon ever known?"

Or was it, as another suggests, "perhaps the true Holy Grail?"

BUT WHAT IS THE TRUE GRAIL?

It's not the cup from the Last Supper, nor is it, as suggested by The Da Vinci Code, the bloodline of Jesus.

Did Paul Tapscott discover the true Grail in wartime France? If he did, then what happened to him. . . and to what he found?

What other secrets are entwined within it? Who--or what groups--are determined to grab those secrets? And if they get them--what then?

Above all, what if that deeper "grail" is a coded reference to a latent power dormant within all of us? Can we tap it? What are the risks?

Come along for adventure in a time when the world was new and death was unknown. As his kingdom quickly becomes crowded by people, plants, and animals who live forever, young Prince Emir must discover the answers to some most perplexing questions