This book was about a young boy named Sam Force, who goes looking for his uncle in Egypt. On his way to find his uncle, he meets a young lady on the plane named Mary Verulam.Together the two search for Sam's uncle. Sam's uncle left clues as to what he was looking for before his disappearance. Little does Sam know that someone is after him.
A recurring motif in the book is sand. They are in Egypt and the books mentions sand a lot. The importance of this motif is that they want to signify the vastness and many possibilities that could have happened throughout the book and how much variation there could have been in the ending of the book 4y