The Omega Factor

Nicholas Lee works for UNESCO's Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office, protecting the world's artistic heritage. A visit to Belgium to see a woman from his past lands him on the trail of a missing panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, the most frequently stolen work of art in history, taken in 1934 and never seen again. The search draws Lee into a conflict spanning nearly two thousand years between the Maidens of Saint-Michael, a secret order of nuns who guard a great and dangerous truth, and the Vatican, which has long sought to find and destroy what they protect. From the canals of Ghent to the ramparts of Carcassonne and an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Lee races to keep a world-altering secret from being erased.