The Navigator: A Novel From the Numa Files

Kurt Austin and his team are in the North Atlantic, helping to rope in icebergs heading for oil rigs and tow them from harm's way, when they spot UNESCO agent Carina Mechadi's ship steaming directly towards an oil rig. When Austin climbs aboard, he finds the ship has been boarded by pirates, determined to steal a priceless Phoenician statue in Carina's collection, called the Navigator, which was stolen from a Baghdad museum in 900 BC. Austin rescues the ship, seeing Carina safely to Washington. Once there, Anthony Saxon, an archaeologist and writer, joins forces with Austin. Someone wants the Navigator badly, for the statue contains an ancient Phoenician map supposedly leading to King Solomon's Mines and a controversial set of the Ten Commandments carved in gold. But others are looking for the lost artifacts too.