- Jan Julian Day while seeking revenge upon those who had ruined his career in the Diplomatic Service becomes drawn into a quest for treasure buried for over years It was for lovely Sylvia Shane that Julian decided to set out upon his quest but it was the damnably dangerous yet adorable Princess Oonas Shahamalek who delayed his goingJulians quest takes him through a night in the Tomb of the Sacred Bulls in Alexandria dope-running in the City of the Dead outside Cairo white-slaving on the Suez Canal a fight for life in a Pharaohs tomb in the Valley of the Kings to the final dxenouement in the middle of the waterless Libyan Desert miles from civilization