Only the lost wealth of the Great Tem-

ple in Jerusalem is rich and significant

enough to ransom the frightful

weapons stolen from the arsenals of

the free world by Irgun terrorists--

weapons that Spain s rapacious and

noble de Covedonga family must

have to succeed in their ultimate bid

for power. And only one man has the

key to its location in the mist-shrouded

mountains of the Basque homeland,

the key which he has intricately re-

corded on a strange map for all who

have eyes to see it. The deadly search

becomes a desperate race against

time which evokes the passions of

lust, greed, and even love among

those enmeshed in its course.

With the sort of fast-paced narrative

that earned acclaim for his first novel,

The Styx Complex, Russell Rhodes

has created another spellbinder in

which the forces at work are as old as

ancient history and as modern as the

holocaust.