When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But the more he finds out about the dead man, the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected they’d convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but… Forced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian journalist, Khalifa enters a murky, murderous world of greed, duplicity, intrigue and revenge as he goes in search of an elusive 2000 year-old mystery with the power, if it fell into the wrong hands, to plunge the Middle East into all-out war… Spanning the millennia uafrom ancient Jerusalem and the Crusades to the Holocaust and the modern-day no-man’s landof the Gaza strip, from Cathar heretics to coded medieval manuscripts and long-lost Nazi treasure - THE LAST SECRET OF THE TEMPLE is a thrilling, rollercoaster adventure.