Scotland, near future. After the wars in the Middle East, the Battle of Armageddon and the Flood, the atomic bombing of Jerusalem and Los Angeles, the time of the Great Alienation came. The First Enlightenment separated church and state. The Second Enlightenment separated religion from politics. In this world, two space elevators operate, energy is extracted in orbit, and combat robots with highly developed artificial intelligence after conversion are trying to adapt to peaceful life. In this world, believers are a marginalized and mistrusted minority, and now someone is hunting them down. At first, Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson decides that the culprits must be sought among the groups of militant atheists left over from the Wars of Faith, but as the circle of suspects and victims begins to expand, it becomes clear that the murders of priests are just the tip of the iceberg, and there may be more at stake. the fate of the whole world.