In this action-packed thriller, twelve year old Max Mead is headed to Cairo, but there'll be no time for fun. His grandfather, a famous antiquities expert, has gone missing and his father is frantically organizing a search party. When Max is given the key to his grandfather's Cabinet of Curiosities, he hopes to locate clues to his grandfather's disappearance. Instead he unlocks an old and powerful family secret and encounters people who will stop at nothing to get their hands on it.