Emil Ganz was always extraordinary. Child genius. Prize-winning astrophysicist. And then, aged 40, missing person.

A decade later he re-emerges as Jupiter, guru of an apocalyptic new age cult, bringing shame on his family, worrying local parents and intriguing Detective Pete Decker.

But when he's found dead, apparently from an overdose, the consequences of his death are even more extraordinary, and terrifying, than of his life ...