After struggling as an aspiring jazz musician in Greenwich Village, Gabe Malek takes a delivery job at a local deli only to have his elderly boss, Mr. Zeddiker, divulge an astonishing secret that threatens to challenge everything he believes. A story that begins in modern New York City, soon takes the reader from Israel in the first century A.D., across the Mediterranean to France, to Scotland, and even the pre-Columbian Americas. Few artifacts in history are more enigmatic than a religious icon known simply as "The Green Man." For centuries, this mysterious image has appeared in churches, on buildings, and in gardens, the world over...