Synopsis: From the back cover of the Timescape first edition: "What began as a simple scholarly pursuit ends in a waking nightmare... Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts - and their murders. Not even when growing terror sends him, trembling through Europe, trying to stop the unstoppable. Neither the unknown physics professor, Albert Einstein, not the wild and obscure Irishman, James Joyce, and certainly not Sir John can grapple with Aleister Crowley and his ancient, terrible order. An international order of beings so horrifying that it defies human imagination - almost... An order based in hell and determined to rule the world with evil - forever. For once you have looked them full in the face, there is no turning away from... Masks of the Illuminati"