The Tirocchi Virus (ePub)

Qumran cave complex, 73 CE

Rumors abounded the Jews were taking their sacred scrolls from their temples and hiding them in caves east of Jerusalem. Flavius Oramus reasoned, "If the locations where the Jews hid their written scrolls were unearthed, one could replace these scrolls with forgeries espousing sayings favorable to the Romans. When the surviving Jews returned for their precious scrolls, wouldn't he be, pouring words into their mouth, as the emperor passionately decreed?" After eight years of war, Flavius Oramus's mission was almost finished. He stood naked at the cave entrance, awaiting the arrival of his Praetorian Guard while washing his hands and body in vats of water placed there for purification.

Thus, was born a secret Flavian cult infiltrating and spreading for almost two thousand years until inadvertently uncovered by four disparate individuals: a free-spirited female Israeli archeologist excavating the Qumran caves in Israel; a covert male CIA operative in Atlanta, Ga; a Benedictine monk in a mountain monastery outside Los Angeles; and a lady white paper fan in the Chinese Mafia! Each pulled individual threads until an evil tapestry was unwoven as some traveled from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Alexandria, Egypt, to Istanbul, Turkey. And others from Los Angeles to Nagasaki, Japan. Until all four met in Chengdu, China. How can four such disparate, strong-minded individuals ally their goals in order to expose this ancient cult and its diabolical intent to infect all, but members of their cult, with a deadly virus?