Main plot

While on duty as an officer with the U.S. Air Force in Libya, the central character successfully negotiates with a small Arab girl at a Roman ruins site for a recently unearthed golden urn. The girl is subsequently "killed' by a driven assassin who is part of a worldwide collaboration organized to prevent the urn and its contents from being made public. The collaboration consists of a rogue Monsignor of the Vatican, a separate rogue, rabbinical group in Israel, and the reluctant Director of the USA's CIA.

The urn is smuggled out of Libya by the USAF officer to the U.S., but only after the assassin attempts, but fails, to stop the officer. However, the officer's Libyan friend/ interpreter is murdered. The assassin had been previously directed to follow the urn wherever it goes and stop public acknowledgement by any means at his disposal, including death, if necessary. The officer and his two friends, against many obstacles, eventually recover the contents of the urn an old Hebrew parchment that relates to the location of a stone tablet, purportedly kept and hidden by Moses himself, containing six additional commandments that ultimately could change the religious history of the world.

The trio later manages to travel to Saudi Arabia to unearth the stone tablet, but they further encounter the assassin once again. Other difficulties put in their path, not only by the rogue groups, but also by the American CIA and unexpected, unexplained tablet radiation give the trio a dilemma filled journey.
Sub-plots
A secondary sub-plot involves the romantic rivalry between the officer, his best friend and the female of the trio. All three, after reconciliation, are stalked, harassed and almost killed many times by the assassin.

A third subplot involves the covert use by the CIA of the Foundation, where the trio is employed. That Foundation also serves as a front for a Washington, D.C.-based overseas group of ambitious Muslims, initially unbeknown by the main characters. In the beginning of the story, the rivalry between the main character and his long-time friend for the position of the Director dominates this subplot. They ultimately do expose and force the termination of the CIA's involvement, however.

The story ends with the traumatic and climactic demise of the rogue Monsignor.