Tom Scheffler knew that his great uncle Montgomery Chapel had made his fortune by selling ancient Egyptian artifacts that were finer than those in any museum Scheffler also knew that-fifty years later- Chapel was still afraid of some man some entity known only as Pilgrim
What Scheffler didn't know-and would learn the hard way-was that Pilgrim was coming back aboard a ship that traveled both space and time headed for a confrontation in a weirdly changed past where the monstrous gods of ancient Egypt lay in wait for grave robbers from out of Time.