Two thousand years ago a disciple stole a holy document from Jesus Christ. It's been hidden ever since, now in the safe keeping of the thief's descendents, who have what they believe is a safe refuge in the Ethiopian desert. But killers arrive during a sandstorm. Yesuph, young and critically wounded, flees into the desert and eventually to another continent, taking the document with him. A killer named Luc follows, bringing biblical retribution. But the killer isn't the only one seeking revenge. Disgraced cop David Hauser wants to kill Thor Gottfried, a lunatic with a Christ complex. Max the...

Creepy newcomer, Jay Hix, doesn't take long to make his name in Argus, a tiny city halfway between the boondocks and the backwoods. When a kid is found unconscious in Hix's van, townsfolk immediately judge him a pervert. *** One evening, at a house near town, teenage Nate and his friends drink and party. His friend, Rob, goes outside and doesn't return. Soon afterward, rookie police detective Greg Margrave stops Hix's van in Argus and within finds Rob unconscious, head bloody, indecently exposed. Hix tells Margrave he found Rob in a ditch and was rushing the kid to hospital, and that's the...