A journalist is murdered in Jerusalems Armenian Cathedral and Detective Arieh Ben-Roi is spoilt for leads. But one seems out of place an apparent link to a decades-old missing persons case in Egypt. Baffled, Ben-Roi turns for help to his old friend and sparring partner, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police.Although struggling with personal tragedy and immersed in a case of his own mysterious well poisonings in the Eastern Desert Khalifa agrees to do some digging. What he discovers will change both mens lives for ever.As their investigations intertwine, the detectives are drawn ever deeper into a sinister web of violence, abuse, corporate malpractice and international terrorism. And at its heart lies a three thousand year-old mystery that has already taken two lives, and will soon be claiming more