It was the greatest treasure in human history, but it wasn't gold or precious jewels. It was a secret so powerful that the person who possessed it could control the world and perhaps become immortal. The CIA and organized crime wanted it, and were willing to do anything to get it. The secret had been lost for thousands of years, but Hans Mier rediscovered it inside an ancient buried temple in the Egyptian desert - just to lose it at the airport, where Steven Christian found it on his way home from a seminar. The U.S. government and the mob tracked him down, but they were too late...