Father Jared Osborn has recieved an extraordinary assignment from his superiors:Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers call hi B, but his enimies say something else: antichrist. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monster-though an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. Pressed by his superiors for a judgment, Osborne is driven to penitrate b's inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspence, The Story of Bis a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs.