TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER, SHE STILL HAS UNFINISHED BUSINESS. It's August 2010 when freelance spy Tristan Boumann accepts what should be an easy gig for him: a fact-finding mission concerning an American archeologist assassinated in Cairo. But Tristan's discovery of the victim's connection to a former lover leads to an ominous dovetailing of Egyptology, CIA origins, and contemporary geopolitics. Galvanized by the spell of Egypt's famed Last Pharaoh while haunted by his family's tarnished past, Tristan must race to avert a global catastrophe his investigation threatens to unleash.