by Harold Robbins

Museum curator Madison Dupre has acquired the golden death mask of Semiramis, an ancient Babylonian queen with an insatiable lust for power and sex.  The three-thousand-year-old mask, legend says, has spawned evil over the millennia. 



Madison is proud to have brought the gorgeous mask to her museum despite rumors that it was looted from an Iraqi museum by the US Army. Then the mask is stolen and Madison, framed for murder, is forced to go on the run.



Stalked by killers, betrayed by people she thought were her friends, she struggles to stay alive in a growing whirlpool of intrigue. Her odyssey of danger takes her to London, Zurich, and Málaga and into the arms of a handsome soldier of fortune who might be able to keep Madison alive long enough to prove her innocence and recover the fabled death mask.