Alex Jardine, a Mesoamerican archeologist, is a woman in hiding, working in a non-descript Mexican restaurant at a small airport in the middle of the Yucatan. While with an archeological field study group at the Mayan ruins of Palenque, in Chiapas, Mexico, she discovered she had become a target of the U.S. District Attorney's office in San Francisco due to a drug smuggling sting against a prior boyfriend. Caught between fear for her life and fear of the U.S. government she stayed in Mexico, hunkered down, and moved to the famous archeological site of Chichen Itza, on the Yucatan Peninsula. Grant Covington, a recent widower, is winding down an offshore corporate formations and private banking business in the West Indies. Since 9-11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, offshore activities have been branded by aggressive three-letter agencies of the U.S. government as sinister plots to undermine the US tax and economic system, and therefore a conspiracy against America. Two federal agencies have been tasked with silencing the troublesome Covington, who is not only an offshore service provider, but also a public spokesperson for a citizen's group identifying the abusive tactics employed by government under new legislative enactments. Flying to Cancun from Veracruz, Mexico, Covington's small private plane, makes an unscheduled landing in the Yucatan after just hearing a frightening story from a close friend. Jose Robles, a family member of a highly placed Mexican government official, knows of a recent pre-Columbian find. The secret discovery appears to be a record written by what may be the mother-culture to the pre-classic Mayan empire. Ancient records in book form are rare in the Americas...only five documents survived the Spanish Conquest and three are in poor condition. They are simply priceless. The newly discovered records are easily worth tens of millions or much, much, more, but their content may have even greater impact. Covington and Jardine are forced to