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The antagonist of this book is the Hassassin. He is hired by the Illuminati to destroy religion, and that is all we know of him. He plans to kill 4 catholic cardinals, publicly, branded, in churches, and at midnight, plans to destroy the Vatican with an antimatter bomb. At this time, all of the cardinals in the world are there, trying to pick a new pope. If the bomb goes off, the Catholicism would die, to his plan.

The tension in this book is caused by secrets and anticipation of conflict. The antagonist is a complete mystery: his motivation, name, and identity is very vague and unknown. The 3rd person limited narrator switches to the unnamed killer, and he keeps thinking about ‘his next move,’ insinuating an upcoming conflict, which even the readers don’t know about, causing speculation and tension.

So far in this book, the unsympathetic characters are the unnamed killer, and the man who goes by the alias “Janus.” Janus is probably a member of the Illuminati, and they hired the assasin to kill someone, no questions asked. The name Janus comes from Greek and Roman mythology, as the two-headed god of doorways, keys, beginnings, endings, and is usually portrayed and described as a not-kind god, but not evil.