Cendro Catmal is a young spin doctor who works in London. He has just helped the Conservative party leader attain election victory when he is given a new, urgent assignment. The following morning he flies to Athens as adviser to an informatics company. On arrival, he discovers that his client has met with a sudden death. Clearly, not from natural causes. He finds himself aboard a roller-coaster of intrigues, secrets and concealed truths. He lands headlong in a story where he is the unwitting pivot in a quest for ancient knowledge, which defines the use of real power. Little by little he reveals the knowledge which had remained hidden in the catcombs of history. And he becomes acquainted with the people who, for better or for worse, fight for the valuable science of genuine power. Chapter after chapter, Cendro's compulsive story is woven into the tale of this ancient knowledge. Thus, between the lines, the reader will meet all kinds of historical 'rulers' in a journey through time. From Confucius to Jackson Pollock. Each chapter closes with a poetical final chord, which provides a glimpse of the story's underlying, mystical truth. Thus we learn where the secret knowledge has been developed, how it was refined, who has used it ... to finally end up in the hands of Cendro Catmal. And of the readers of 'The Silence of the Sword'... "Past and present are so ingeniously interwoven in this book, that the reader discovers eternal truths."