In the spring of 1924, after the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb, Howard Carter rushed to the British Consulate in Cairo without prior notice, demanding diplomatic intervention to compel the Egyptian authorities to renew the excavation permit, which had been revoked after the Antiquities Service discovered tampering with the tomb's records. Undocumented artifacts had been found hidden in a wine box in another tomb. The consul confided in Howard Carter that intervention was impossible under the current circumstances. Carter, incensed, threatened that if he did not receive adequate and just compensation, he would reveal to the world the texts of the papyri he had found in the king's burial chamber, containing previously undiscovered secrets. In his fifth novel, Ahmed Mourad ventures into thorny territory, pursuing an ancient secret cleverly concealed before our eyes between the lines of the holiest books of Egyptian civilization. A secret that may forever change your reading of one of the most important moments in Egyptian history.