Jack Hunter, an adventurous treasure seeker, goes to Syria after his mentor and father figure Professor Fredrick Shaffer is killed. Professor Frederick Shaffer believed that the people of Ugarit, a town in Syria that existed during the Pharoah’s reign, had buried a treasure before they were wiped out by the Pharoahs.
Jack meets with Liz Johnson, an NSA operative, who explains that an obelisk with Ugaritic symbols has been found in Egypt, by Dr. Lena Halstrom, linking the pharaoh Akenaten to the lost treasure of Ugarit.
Jack Hunter realizes the pharaoh's tomb is empty except for a Roman coin means the treasure was looted to Rome but later probably transferred the new, Byzantine capital, Constantinople. There the NSA reunites him with Nadia and Tariq, mainly as cover, to prevent the mighty combined weapon falling into criminal hands.
