The story begins with a group of well-meaning geneticists in charge of the designer baby project at a local fertility clinic in Southern California. Their hubris leads to a critical error in judgment. And the dire consequences of that needless blunder wont be evident for years to come. Unfortunately, by then, it was be too late. Vatican City (Twenty Years Later)Pope Peter II, the first American pontiff, began having night frights so vivid and realistic that on the last day of each month he was afraid to fall sleep. The dreams were always the same. Pure evil was spreading through civilization like a terrible cancer. Worse yet, these nightmares would soon escape the boundaries of the Popes dreams and ultimately infest the civil workings of real world. On an urgent basis, Father Kevin McCarthy, a noted American geneticist, was summoned to Vatican City to investigate these strange happenings. What he and his colleague, Meighan Cole, found would join science and religion at the hip and then turn each discipline on its respective ear. They discovered that pure evil had its ancestral roots in human DNA and the names of those individuals missing this special gene were replete in the annals of history (Vlad the Impaler, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin, to name a few). But what Kevin found while digging even deeper into the matter was more staggering. This new generation of evil was not the product of classical evolution, but one created in a laboratory with the aid of a computer and a petri dish. This evil was destined to change the very nature of man and turn the entire human race into an advanced species without a genetic soul.