Molchanie apostola

Skandal'no izvestnyy professor simvologii Dzhon Longdeyl s tribuny nauchnoy konferencii vo vseuslyshanie ob'yavil, chto nameren povedat' vsemu miru o neveroyatnom otkrytii, kotoroe sposobno obrushit' ustoi sovremennogo hristianstva. Odnako ozvuchit' sensaciyu professor ne uspel: v tot zhe vecher on byl zhestoko ubit. A v tysyachah kilometrov ot Londona, na ostrove Patmos, soversheno zhutkoe massovoe ubiystvo palomnikov: s tel neschastnyh byli srezany ogromnye loskuty kozhi. Skotlend-Yard svyazyvaet oba prestupleniya s serom Arturom MakGregorom, kotoromu professor naznachil vstrechu nezadolgo do svoey gibeli, a takzhe s assistentom professora francuzhenkoy Eli. Chtoby spasti svoyu zhizn' i svobodu, molodym lyudyam prihoditsya razgadyvat' zapredel'no slozhnye rebusy, a tayna ubitogo professora, k kotoroy oni vplotnuyu priblizilis', okazalas' nastol'ko shokiruyuschey, chto mogla obrushit' ne tol'ko hristianstvo, no i ves' mir...