In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport- you're about to get a visitor, it's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic-a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. It turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it.