The Mountain

A SHOCKING HISTORICAL SECRET HAS RESURFACED. It's 1863. America's most legendary war leaders arrange a meeting --a clandestine alliance that will never show up in any history book. Their mission: To heal a war-torn nation by bringing the remnants of a prized ship back to U.S. soil--one that may lie on a mountaintop inside the Ottoman Empire, where the men who seek it are only days away from killing one another. The battles will rage at sea and upon land--with enemies both past and future. Colonel John Henry Thomas of the Union Army will come face to face with his mortal enemies in the South and a dark entity that has been trapped on top of God's Mountain for a millennium. CAN THE EVENT GROUP SOLVE ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST MYSTERIES--AND SAVE THE FUTURE OF MANKIND? In 2007, America's darkest agency, known to only a privileged few as the Event Group, recruits a man they desperately need for their security. Major Jack Collins is brought to the underground world of the organization to learn about the darkest secrets in history, and is told a tale that brings him full circle about his destiny and Department 5656. But what comes around goes around--and this time, there's no turning back...