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You might call Augustin Lêveque a “profiler”—that is, of human souls. For his power to plumb the souls of others with a single glance, he was once prized by the highest levels of French government, before the same unsettling gift caused him to be cast into the streets. Saved from vagrancy by Myriam, a prison librarian, he now lives off her charity, a man without purpose. That is, until his former supervisor, the head of the secret service, and no less than the Archbishop of Paris entrust him with the same mission: to find the man Ben Youssef, who won the allegiance of millions by claiming on a talk show to be the Apostle John.

Of his activities, as of his past, Myriam can know nothing. A rift opens between them as an Augustin is consumed by his pursuit of historical riddle: in the 17th century, the Abbot Bois-Joli was sent by the Vatican to investigate the sources of the Gospel of John. The story is shrouded in mystery; all records are either lost or under lock and key. Is Ben Youssef an impostor, a political agitator, or a spiritual leader? Is Augustin the reincarnation of the Abbot, to whom he bears a strange resemblance? Is his quest in any way related to the gory series of murders by crucifixion menacing Paris?