On a dusty Alexandrian street, Egyptologist Daniel Knox comes across a Dead Sea Scroll jar that puts him on the trail of an ancient Jewish sect Then Knox's partner Gaille Bonnard is abducted, and a hostage tape on TV threatens her with execution Certain she's hidden a message in the broadcast, and with time running out, Knox races across Egypt to the tomb of a heretic pharaoh that may just provide the answer to riddle of the Exodus itself