Doug Stavers plays the mercenary game, and every time he plays he wins: in Africa, Central America, Vietnam or in the USA. Now he's on the biggest hunt of his life: to find and seize a certain object that, incredibly, confers the power of absolute belief on its owner. Christ once wore it. So did Mohammed. The last to own it was Adolf Hitler. The next will rule the world. It's code name is "The Messiah Stone".

Doug Stavers discovers that his possession of the Messiah Stone, a talisman with a mysterious connection to the planet Mars that gives its owner the power to induce total belief in the minds of those near him, has made him the target of every government on Earth.