What can connect a New York pimp and an extremist fanatic from a remote corner of Montana? A very unusual method of execution: before killing the victims, the killer injected them with a strong anesthetic. It seemed that the criminal, dooming the unfortunate people to death, was trying to save them from pain. The young ambitious journalist Will Monroe is already anticipating the glory that will fall upon him after publishing a series of articles about the mysterious maniac... But the third murder, completely identical in style to the previous ones, occurs on another the end of the world - in India. Could it be that these crimes were committed not by one person, but by an entire organization?! But what are its members trying to achieve? Who are they? And on what basis are victims chosen? Will’s ex-girlfriend, who agreed to help him in the investigation, claims: the answers to all these questions are stored in the ancient chronicles and traditions of the religious community in which she grew up...