If you loved The Da Vinci Code and The Celestine Prophecy , consider this: The date is 21 December 2012, the fabled End-Time of the Mayan Calendar. What will happen on this fateful day? Journalist James Highgate and linguist Flavia Timmins journey to Xocomil near Lake Atitlan in the Mayan highlands. There they meet the custodian of a secret ancient text that holds the key to the amazing link between the Mayan god Kukulcan and the Christian disciple St Thomas, brother of Jesus. How are the destinies of these two spiritual figures connected as the End-Time draws near? Both the secret Mayan teachings and the ancient biblical text point to a dramatic climax in world history which will take place at the end of recorded time, on 21 December 2012. Is this the date of the biblical Second Coming? And what dark forces stand in the way of this startling Revelation?