The protagonist in this saga of intrigue and supernatural mystery, Jonathan Ramsey, is a human geographer and specialist in the study of sacred places. He is called upon to investigate the sudden disappearance of the healing powers of a famous shrine in New Mexico. What he discovers along the way is the very meaning of Jesus''s call "to be like him." Ramsey, also, learns of his own role in fostering an epochal renewal of Christianity and readers receive a revelation about the power of place in human affairs. When Ramsey arrives at the shrine, he begins by interviewing the strange cast of eccentric characters involved with the shrine, and he learns of Adam Gwillt, the shrine''s humble caretaker. For some reason, the interviewees tell Ramsey half-truths about the shrine and its caretaker. Slowly, Ramsey pieces together the suppressed true story of Adam, who had shown up at the shrine at the same time its many spectacular healings began. To his surprise, he is able to empirically link the