In the Koran there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of 1666, the apocalyptic Year of the Beast, Balthasar Embriaco embarks on ... » 

In the Koran there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of 1666, the apocalyptic Year of the Beast, Balthasar Embriaco embarks on a quest to find out whether it does. Merely to know this most secret of the names of God will, Balthasar believes, ensure that he is saved. «