Art investigator Madison Dupre knows a fake when she sees it. When the mysterious Dr. Kaseem offers to pay her a handsome sum to “ransom” a scarab stolen from the tomb of King Tut, her gut tells her to walk away. Since she still needs to pay the rent, Madison throws caution to wind and prepares to search for the Heart of Egypt. Before she can pack a suitcase, she finds herself framed for murder and on the run. Her leads take her to Stonehenge, England, where a Druid sex cult worships a “goddess of love,” a woman with enough personal wealth to buy a host of admirers. Madison finds an admirer of her own in Rafi al-Din, an Egyptian antiquities investigator she knows she can’t trust, but who arouses her passions. Drawn to Egypt in search of the scarab, Madison is trapped in the land of the Pharaohs when her passport is seized at the airport. She knows she is being played by Kaseem, who believes the Heart has the power to galvanize the masses to support his secret cause. From the famed Khan marketplace, to the Valley of the Kings and the incredible colossi at Abu Simbel, Madison treads a careful path among tomb robbers, assassins, and political fanatics. She must dodge curses both ancient and modern to stay alive. The wild and epic stories of Harold Robbins live on in this sweeping series by Junius Podrug.

A suspense-filled thriller, ripped from tomorrow's headlines--when the sacred meets the secular, mankind will stop at nothing in the name of the word. When the news is heard that a prophetic testament written by Jesus Christ may yet exist, scholars, fortune hunters, religious groups, and reporters converge on the site within hours. Their reasons vary, but their desire is the same.

This book was written at a time when little of nothing was known of Central Asia. Tibet was still a forbidden land and the conditions in other parts so harsh as to discourage all but the hardiest of travellers and explorers. The author Aurel Stein originated in Hungary and completed his studies in Oxford U. from where he took up the post of principal in Lahore's Oriental College. He later joined the Archaeological Survey of India which allowed him to travel distant lands in some of the most obscure and inaccessible parts of North India and beyond. His descriptions of his travels lead us across almost the same terrain as was followed by Marco Polo on his adventures to China and the Great Kublai Khan. This was the ancient Silk Road, which once joined the civilizations of antiquity and was a main artery of commerce for the ancient world. This most revealing book allows us to see through the eyes of the Author the great expanses of dried up prehistoric oceans now converted into deserts which travellers faced on their long journeys across central Asia.