THE PRESENT...? Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul?will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest?corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society?of beings who may often?exist?behind the world's most horrible and violent events.? Killing from a distance, and by darkly manipulative proxy, they are people with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable aggression.? Each?year, three of the most powerful of this?hidden?order?meet to discuss their ongoing campaign of induced bloodshed and deliberate destruction.? But this?reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Saul's quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankind's attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself.