What if the Freemasons were holding the secret to the end of time?
For the past 2000 years the world, always on the edge of destruction, has never been so close to its end. The Freemason commissioner Antoine Marcas finds the preliminary sketch for the painting The Shepherds of Arcadia by Nicolas Poussin: a cursed drawing whose deciphering could lead to the end of time.
Manipulated by his own brothers and chased by fundamentalists ready for anything in order to provoke the Apocalypse, Marcas will have to partake in a Manichean and ancestral battle. From Jerusalem, in Salomon's Temple where it all began, to Rennes-le-Chateau where all must end
Once again the authors explore a fascinating and popular subject spanning several historical eras that necessitated substantial research, all peppered with the esoteric.
Jacques Ravenne is the pseudonym of a high-ranking Freemason with intimate knowledge of the history and culture of the Order.
Éric Giacometti used to be an investigative journalist who reported extensively on Freemasonic mores.
"Two new heavy-weight of the thriller." Le Point
"This fifth volume of the adventures of the illustrious commissioner will reveal him to his readers, initiates or not, who are now over 350,000 in France to take interest in him." Livre Hebdo
"A surprisingly unsuspected outcome that largely rewards the reader for his diligence." Le Parisien / Aujourd'hui en France