New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Peters - a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master - delivers her 19th Amelia Peabody mystery. Brimming with atmosphere and intrigue, this breathtaking adventure whisks listeners away to the ancient ruins and smoldering tensions of 1910 Palestine. Sleuthing archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her Egyptologist husband are basking in the summer tranquility of their English home when a stranger disturbs their idyllic repose. Would-be treasure hunter Major George Morely wants their help on a daring mission to find the lost Ark of the Covenant. Determined to prevent catastrophic excavations and violent protests from Christians, Jews, and Muslims, Amelia and her husband head for the seething cauldron of the Holy Land - the lawless frontier of the crumbling Ottoman Empire.
