In a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering project - codename and "Exodus and " - has discovered the gene responsible for the human soul.Somewhere in the neon sprawl outside the nation's collapsing economic core, a group of renegade monks are on the verge of uncovering a secret that has eluded mankind for centuries.In a glittering tower high above the urban decay, an ascendant U.S. Senator is found dead - an apparent, yet inexplicable, suicide.And in the streets below, a young man races through an ultra modern metropolis on the verge of a violent revolution....closing in on the terrible truth behind Exodus - and one man's dark vision for the future of mankind.Welcome to Tiber City.