The third reich is dead -- the fourth is ready to begin...

Murder shattered the calm of a Cambridge cloister. Across the world, archaeologist David Rosen was attacked, his Arab assistant brutally killed. In Israel two elderly people died in a bomb blast.

David Rosen was also a Mossad agent -- and soon the connections between these disparate deaths led him into a labyrinth as challenging as the half-excavated ruins of an ancient city.

His search for the killers led him to the Sinai desert, to the Palestinian Leyla -- and to the lost city of Iram, a city as old as Babylon, a city that somebody wanted to stay lost forever...

The seventh sanctuary was where the forces that wished to unleash a new holocaust in the Middle East were gathering -- and only David Rosen could stop them.