British-occupied Cairo, 1928: several young children have disappeared and have since been found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from 'One Thousand and One Nights' been brought to life？ British inspector Jeremy Matheson follows the trail of the monster, which takes him into the depths of underground Cairo as well as deep into his own tortured past.

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British-occupied Cairo, 1928: several young children have disappeared and have since been found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. Panic is spreading among the locals after a cloaked giant is sighted. Has a ghoul from 'One Thousand and One Nights' been brought to life？ British inspector Jeremy Matheson follows the trail of the monster, which takes him into the depths of underground Cairo as well as deep into his own tortured past.

Mont-Saint-Michel,2005: Marion has taken refuge in the windswept and remote monastery located on a spit of land on the north coast of France. In the wake of a scandal caused by her own revelations, which is now reverberating throughout Paris, she has been brought to the monastery by the Secret Service for her own protection. When she finds a diary dating" from 1928 in the library, penned by Jeremy Matheson,she is inexorably pulled into the past. But Marion is being watched, and taunting notes ahd riddles urge her to give back what is not hers ...