Abaddon Rising

A top-rated television journalist unearths a common thread among several "accidental" deaths of key international financiers. Just as he plans to expose Abaddon, the mysterious figurehead behind a wide-ranging conspiracy to plunge the world into a new Dark Age, the journalist dies. So begins a global search of massive proportions, headed by Adam Dekker. Newly retired from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) and enjoying his stress-free life, Dekker realizes he can't pass up this intriguing puzzle. Dekker follows a complex trail of bodies and clues, using a mixture of cunning insight and Army Ranger skills, in an effort to stop the impending calamity. Abaddon's greed for ultimate worldwide power-amazingly planned centuries ago-coincides with the solstice, December 2012, the day when the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it. In tracking down Abaddon, Dekker is thrown into a world of mysticism and supernatural conflict as he follows the trail leading from New York to Scotland, Iceland and finally Germany. The showdown comes in Abaddon's secret lair deep in the Black Forest of Germany where time-and civilization hang in the balance.