Based on the actual events surrounding scientist' efforts to authenticate the Shroud of Turin, James BeauSeigneur creates a fictionalised story that links ancient DNA to the coming of the Antichrist. While examining the Shroud of Turin - believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ - Professor Harold Goodman makes an incredible discovery: a cluster of skin cells still alive after 2000 years. Faced with such a startling find, Goodman conspires to carry out what might be the most earth-shattering experiment ever attempted: the cloning of Jesus Christ. When the experiment proves successful, the child born of the ancient cells soon sets in motion forces that trigger worldwide cataclysms, and could end the world as we know it...