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Jack, a Prussian/American aristocrat; Harry, the son of the gardener who worked his estates. Best friends since childhood, in 1939 they go to Egypt together to work on the excavations at Sakkara. There they meet - and fall in love with - Rachel Stern, beautiful, German, Jewish. When war is declared Jack returns to do his duty for the Fatherland; Harry stays on in Egypt; Rachel s return to Europe is intercepted by the Nazis and she is never heard from again. Until four years later. Roosevelt and Churchill are to meet in Egypt for the most important summit of WWII. And Harry, Jack and Rachel are to meet too - on different sides of a daring assassination attempt that could change the course of the twentieth century.