In 1908, British aristocrat Monty Parker was approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius, who claimed to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that revealed the location of the Ark of the Covenant. Assembling a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, psychics, and a Dominican priest, Parker began a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Evoking Raiders of the Lost Ark, Brad Ricca tells the story of how Parker's quest made meaningful discoveries, only to be undermined by folly, double-dealing, and the tensions of the Holy Land.