As German armies gather in Poland, Hitler has found a masterly diversion. Muller, a German archeologist from Dahrein, has been summoned to Berlin. Still in Dahrein, Gavin Kane, an American trader and Ruth Cunningham search desperately for Ruuth's husband, an archeologist who disappeared in the desert while on a quest for the legendary and long lost Temple of Sheba . With cunning and ingenuity they survive outlaws and treachery, and stumble on a conspiracy that may have devastating consequences for the world.