It is the year 1436 according to the Hijri calendar. Bertrand Laval has spent the past six years at sea.
When he finally docks in the port of Brest, believing he has returned to the France he left behind, he soon realises that the world he once knew has changed beyond recognition.
The secular democracy he departed has become a religious Islamic state.
Networks, money, manipulation and power lie at the heart of The Prophecy, a gripping thriller that blurs the line between fiction and anticipation.