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From internationally-acclaimed New York Times best-selling creator Raymond Benson comes a suspense thriller that mixes modern-day criminal offense, historical characters, and fantasy. When his ranch hand's newborn boy is abducted from the hospital's maternity ward and found inactive hours later in a garbage dumpster, former FBI agent and Western Texan Rusty "Red" River resolves to bring the perpetrators to justice. Analysis reveals that a string of similar child abduction/murders previously occurred in Texas towns between Limite and the Mexican boundary. Each of them have one peculiar signature in common: the newborns' mind are marked with the Arabic equivalent to the notice "L". River contacts his former girlfriend, a Jewish historian, to help solve the mystery. Together they discover a bizarre storyline that exercises from war-torn Iraq to Israel, Mexico, Texas, and lastly Chicago. Even stranger is the catalyst for the wickedness. A mystical, prehistoric relic is in the possession of the killers: a talisman that is passed on through the hundreds of years. Saddam Hussein possessed it. Adolf Hitler possessed it. Attila the Hun once had it. It even belonged to Judas. Precisely what is the artifact of bad?