When Bendigo Smith recieves a letter from an old friend, he opens it to find a makeshift map and a warning to "come carefully". When he tries to contact his friend he finds he has been killed. He travels to Egypt to try to find an answer to why his friend was murdered but from the moment his plane lands in Egypt he is involved in a mystery that men have been trying to solve for hundreds of years.He along with his friend Peter embark upon an adventure that pits them against an apponent that is pure evil.