Linked by a plot that has its roots in a heinous crime that took place decades earlier. A pale, colorless man with a penchant for mayhem; a group of hidden tzaddikim; a CIA agent gone rogue; a young Yerushalmi bride; a Mexican anthropologist; a Texas rancher, a Torah-observant senior official in the U. S. Department of Agriculture - and an aging rebbe whose vision seems to grow stronger as his physical powers fade and the future of his dynasty is at stake - all come together in a story that astonishes and fascinates the reader.
