This is the way the world ends

The signs are everywhere. A stripper's mutilated corpse. Prophecies scrawled on a highway overpass. The living dead interred in homemade coffins beside a freezing river. Darkness visible is stalking Seattle's sexual underground, and the police can't stop it.

Frank Black quit the Bureau and moved his wife and daughter to Seattle to keep them safe. But it may be too late. As the millennium approaches, the darkness only he can see has followed him. Now, Frank Black and the enigmatic Millennium Group are pitted against a tormented serial killer whose visions mirrior Frank's own: the death throes of a world -- our world -- spinning into the abyss.

Based on the highest-rated pilot in Fox television histroy, this premiere Millennium novelization by award-winning author Elizabeth Hand, captures the vision and excitement of the original script by The X-Files creator, Chris Carter.

Criminal profiler Frank Black believed the face of evil was a human face -- until the investigation of grisly murders in San Francisco introduces him to a world where evil may be an entity of greater power than he ever imagined.

The discovery of several pounds of human ashes -- the remains of murder victims burned alive -- leads Frank and the Millennium Group to uncover a cult awaiting Armageddon. Frank's search for the cult leader brings him face-to-face with a man whose power is so baffling, whose influence is so pervasive, that he tests Frank's understanding of the nature of evil.

Based on the apocalyptic new television show, these premiere Millennium novelizations capture the vision and excitement of the show from the creator of The X-Files, Chris Carter.