Patrick Totman
This is the story of a family, a very extended anddecidedly non-nuclear family with multiple explosivesecrets. Family members interact with powerfulgovernmental, financial, and religious forces at a timeof seismic cultural shifts in the late twentieth and earlytwenty-first centuries. The Berlin Wall and the IronCurtain are falling. Crises arise within and outside thefamily.Adam Thelen is the third son of the family patriarch,and he is a priest. He has a forbidden love affair andalso responds to the evil acts of a fellow priest. Adam isshocked at his own actions. Is he any less malign thenhis family’s adversaries? Adam’s daughter Caitlin,called ’special’ by the Pope, confronts great evil. Thissaga of a family with strong ties to global financial andreligious institutions will continue with volume 3-Epiphany: Satan Ascendant.