Will Piper

The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed . . . A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died-a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed-with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives-and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost . . . Some crimes should never be solved; some secrets are best left buried.

The Library: Only a handful know it exists ... It holds the world's most astonishing-and terrifying-information ... But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time ... is missing. Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved-and survived-the "Doomsday Killer" case ... and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest-and now he's on the trail of a mysterious volume that's been lost for six centuries. This is the book that inspired Shakespeare and the prophecies of Nostradamus, and once Will gets his hands on it, his life will be worth nothing-his death sentence a top priority handed down from the very highest levels of power. Because there are some truths too dangerous for anyone to know-those that concern the future, world domination ... and the end of everything.

Prophecy is prologue England, 1775. An ambitious American pushes his expedition onward despite dire warnings from the locals. But what Benjamin Franklin discovers on the Isle of Wight isn't just superstition. It's a secret with the power to save the world-or destroy it. In less than four hundred days, most of the world's population will be dead. Nobody knows why, only when: February 9, 2027. Retired FBI Special Agent Will Piper is one of the few who will live "Beyond the Horizon." Fifteen years ago, he revealed the prophecy to the world after the hunt for a madman led him to the mystical Library of Vectis, now housed at Area 51, in an unmarked location in the Nevada desert. Will is determined to live out his days in the Florida sun . . . even as the world sinks into hedonism and despair . . . even as the Doomsday Killer's ominous calling cards resurface . . . until the apocalypse threatens the one thing Will won't compromise on: his own flesh and blood.