A fast moving thriller involving the rekindling of jealousy, greed and thirst for revenge. Vengeance is sought when a Lloyd's Insurance market investor desperately struggles to meet massive and potentially bankrupting losses. His rediscovery of a disputed family inheritance pre-dating the Russian revolution sparks a dramatic struggle to wrest a near priceless jewel from the possession of its keeper. The unwitting involvement of two modern time pilgrims seems mysteriously to repeat an ancient medieval legend as present cunning reflects past cruelties.