Retired army ranger John holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West point, when young Israeli archaeologists Rafi wananu comes to him with desperate news. Hollidays niece and rafi's fiance Peggy has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of a ancient tomb in egypt. Her captors are known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of iris, murders Fanatics who worship a dead dog. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find the only family he has left. But their search for Peggy will lead them to a trail of clues that spans across the globe, and Into the Heart of a conspiracy involving the ancient Egyptian Legend and the darker secrets of the order of Templar knights. Secrets that once known cannot be survived.