Don’t miss the this exciting, New York Times bestselling adventure from Preston & Child, where the secrets of a mysterious ancient tablet may point the way to untold treasure–or unspeakable danger.

‘I just want to be crystal clear concerning this: if it has value, we’re gonna grab it. Are you with me?’ Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down and the top of the business, Eli Glinn, has basically vanished. Clean off a analysis that gives him only weeks to live, about The Pharaoh Key Gideon Crew is contacted by one of his coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who tells him the two have simple hours to get their belongings before the office closes forever. After years of dedicated service and many high-risk missions, theirs seems just like the most ignoble of terminations-until Gideon and Garza happen upon an unbelievable discovery. After centuries of silence, a code-breaking machine at EES has cracked the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet, the Phaistos Disc, that dates back to an normally completely unknown, ancient civilization. The mysteries from the message itself hint at amazing treasures, and perhaps a good world-altering secret. Nobody remains at EES to defend myself against this most remarkable mission but Gideon and Garza. Both agree to resolve the mystery from the disc’s message and break up the spoils: an ideal parting present their employer doesn’t understand he has given. What is situated at the end of the trail may conserve Gideon’s life-or take it to an abrupt, shocking close. As Gideon and Garza soon discover, some missions are more dangerous than others. But simply because Gideon offers proved over and over, there is no such thing mainly because too great a risk when you’re living on lent time.