The Jesus Drug: The Miracle Pill

A drug that stops war.

A drug that ends cruelty.

A drug that eliminates crime.

A drug that makes everyone equal.

A drug that makes real the Golden Rule: Do as you would be done by.

It's the miracle the world has always wanted - the cure for evil. So why are a New York doctor and young reporter hellbent on destroying the Jesus Drug?

A charismatic preacher who leads a religious cult called Golden Angelica is giving away a pill with an astonishing effect. He calls the miracle pill the Jesus Drug. He says that anyone who takes the pill cannot sin. It makes them behave as Jesus Christ would want them to. Sinners who take it never sin again.

A Senator, a veteran New York police chief, a radical community leader, and an Oscar-winning film starlet are all backing these extraordinary claims. Thousands of new converts believe heaven on earth is imminent. A new Eden really can be created, they say. Humanity can be what it was always intended to be.

Network News has asked star reporter, 23-year old Lisa Garrison, to investigate. Garrison is already working on another story. In a six-week period, twenty-four young millionaires have killed themselves after clubbing in "The Lazar House", a glamorous new nightspot in Manhattan with a fatal secret. Before they died, the rich kids raved about something called ConX. No one knows what it is. A drug? A new angle on sex? A collective spiritual experience? None of the club's regulars is talking. Silence is total and unbreakable.

Is ConX too much of a good thing? Is that what's killing the privileged elite? Garrison has never worked on a story as big as this. It doesn't make any sense. Or maybe it makes too much sense. The rich live differently and now they are dying differently.

As Garrison pursues the sensational story, she encounters Dr Josh Kramer of the Trope Biopsychology Institute in Manhattan. He's working on the same cases, from the medical angle.

As the two swap notes, they find a connection between the two cases and a link that points to the most unexpected place: Nazi Germany.

Kramer is struggling to find a cure for an illness that affects just one group of people - Jewish survivors of a Nazi death camp. His own father is one of the victims. He's certain there's a link between the preacher's pill and his father's condition. When he claims the pill was first manufactured in Block 10, the sinister medical facility of Auschwitz, his colleagues think he's gone mad.

If he's right, Hitler is taking an ingenious revenge from the grave. If he's wrong, he's denying the world its best ever chance.

Now everyone is demanding the answer. Is the Jesus Drug a gift from heaven … or from hell?