They met in Paris in 1776, in London in 1912, and in Washington in 1938. They planned the violence, revolutions and bloody, bitter wars that followed. They met again in 1984. The conspiracy was almost complete. In the Vatican, the newly appointed Pope was preparing his first Encyclical, guided by a voice like Christ's. In America, Democratic Candidates for the Presidential election were falling like swatted flies. A centuries-old aim was close to attainment. Nine men were poised to plunge the world into an age as dark and forbidding as Hell itself, an age of anarchic bloodshed. An age completely dominated by The Elect.