A journalist is bruttaly murdered in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral and Detective Arieh Ben-Roi is spoilt for leads. One, however, doesn't seem to fit with thw rest f the investigation- a link with a decades-old missing person's case in Egypt. Baffled, Bwn-Roi turns for help to his old friend and sparring partner, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police. Although stuggling with personal troubles and immersed in a case of his own- a series of mysterious well-poisonings in Eastern Desert- Khalifa agrees to do some digging. Wht he discovers will chage both men's lives for ever. As their investigations interwine, the detectives are drawn even deeper into a sinister web of violence, abuse, corporate malpractice and international terrorism. And at the heart of the web lies the labyrinth; a three-thousand-year-old mystery tha has already taken two lives, and will soon be claming more...