Mountain

Experience the first mission of the US government's most secret agency as Civil War-era agents are tasked with retrieving a mythical artifact.It's 1863. America's most legendary war leaders arrange a meeting-a clandestine alliance that will never show up in any history book. Their mission: To heal a war-torn nation by bringing the remnants of a prized ship back to US soil-one that may lie on a mountaintop inside the Ottoman Empire, where the men who seek it are only days away from killing one another. The battles will rage at sea and upon land-with enemies both past and future. Colonel John Henry Thomas of the Union Army will come face to face with his mortal enemies in the South and a dark entity that has been trapped on top of God's Mountain for a millennium.In 2007, America's darkest agency, known to only a privileged few as the Event Group, recruits a man they desperately need for their security. Major Jack Collins is brought to the underground world of the organization to learn about the darkest secrets in history, and is told a tale that brings him full circle on why his destiny has always lain with Department 5656 . . .