The Middle East is pushed to the brink when Iranian commandos recover abandoned American nuclear torpedoes from the ocean's fl oor. The stakes are raised even further when Goldman is caught up in an international conspiracy to recover and use the sacred Ark of the Covenant as a modern day military weapon. For reasons Solomon Goldman doesn't yet understand, all eyes are on him as he tries to pick up the trail of his missing brother and locate the clues to the missing treasure map.

In a breathless race over four continents, Goldman must follow the signs, hidden away for millenniums, that lead to the Ark, all while struggling with his own religious doubts and unbelief's. At every turn fate seems to draw him deeper into Eteye's cryptic world of unexplained past connections. Who really is this woman? Unless he can decipher the biblical secrets and fi nd the ancient Ark before the world's superpowers do, the Ark of War may be lost forever-or worse yet, used as a modern day weapon of mass destruction.