In the Courts of the Sun

December 21 2012. The day time stops. Jed DeLanda a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2012 is a math prodigy who spends his time playing Go against his computer and raking in profits from online trading. His secret weapon? A Mayan divination game---once used for predicting corn-harvest cycles now proving very useful in predicting corn futures---that his mother taught him. But Jed''s life is thrown into chaos when his former mentor the game theorist Taro and a mysterious woman named Marena Park invite him to give his opinion on a newly discovered Mayan codex. Marena and Taro are looking for a volunteer to travel back to 664 AD to learn more about a sacrifice game described in the codex. Jed leaps at the chance and soon scientists are replicating his brain waves and sending them through a wormhole straight into the mind of a Mayan king. Only something goes wrong. Instead of becoming a king Jed arrives inside a ballplayer named Chacal who is seconds away from throwing himself down the temple steps as a human sacrifice. If Jed can live through the next few minutes he might just save the world.