Stopping off in Paris, free-lance writer and adventurer Barry Donovan is hired to rescue Jean Claude Bouchard's daughter, Emily, somewhere in the deserts of northern Africa. But Emily has other ideas, enlisting Barry's aid to locate gold. with only days left until the outbreak of hostilities, Barry and his sidekick, Hadji, must deal with police corruption, rebel armies, and monks to rescue the reluctant girl and take the gold. but will the ghost of a long dead sheikh prevent them from accomplishing their mission?