Eli, the friend of Sir Arthur MacGregor, is in panic: his brother Henry LeBlanc’s wife is shot dead in the head. Then Henry himself vanishes without a trace. A pathologist extracts a cicada larva from the dead woman’s throat, and on the corpse photos a DVD with a famous feature film can be seen clearly; the prototype of the main heroine was born on January 1, 1933. That’s how Arthur MacGregor receives a set of signs from a new rebus—and as it is deciphered, together with Eli he plunges into the mystery of the secret organization “Cicada 3301”, whose scale and monstrous cynicism humanity has never seen before…
The book is based on absolutely real facts. Any reader with access to the Internet can verify the existence of “Cicada 3301”. And, of course, the shock will come from the well-known names of historical figures and currently living politicians and businessmen mentioned in the novel. This reality turns the novel into a truly staggering investigation of a megaconspiracy—compared to which even fascism and terrorism seem like childish play…