1922. The world has barely recovered from the Great War. Egyptology is thriving. Howard Harter finds Tutankhamun's tomb. On the trail of the controversial British explorer Ralph Trilipush is an Australian detective, convinced that the Egyptologist was guilty of a double murder at the end of the war. Trilipush, translator of pornographic verses of the apocryphal Egyptian king Atum-hadu, is looking for his tomb in the sands. The expedition of a stubborn loner along the winding paths of historical projections costs the lives and happiness of many people. But none of them will ever know the truth. None of them will tell the whole truth. Nobody will find the bodies. No one will solve the grandiose mystery. But perhaps someone will gain true immortality. The incredible novel by Arthur Phillips is a pearl of modern American prose.