Over 700 years ago, Jaques de Molay, the last Grandmaster of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake on trumped up charges of blasphemy. The night before the execution, Pope Clement V sent de Molay a letter offering him clemency if he would surrender the huge Templar treasure to him personally. This transaction would guarantee that every successive pope would get his share. De Molay refused the offer and was consigned to the flames. Many centuries later, a priest, Father Raffaele Bernardi, working in the Secret Vatican Archives discovered Clement V’s letter and decided that such corruption had to be exposed. He confided in his friend and fellow historian Professor Bradley Davison of what he had found—even showing him the actual letter and its translation. Now the Vatican wants it back—and will stop at nothing to get it. Soon thereafter, Father Bernardi is murdered along with a fellow priest in the rectory of St. Luke’s R.C. Church. This begins a manhunt that leads to the pursuit of a killer who not only murdered Father Bernardi, but five other people as well. At the center of the investigation is Chief Mag Goldman of the Homicide Division of the NYPD. His ‘flying squad’ of crack homicide detectives tirelessly pursue the killer. But it is Brad Davison’s research and input that makes the investigation one of the strangest serial killings in the history of the NYPD.