Old Joe Murdoch single-handedly runs one of the last old-style gold mines on the Coromandel Peninsula, but he runs into trouble. Old Joe Murdoch is in danger of losing his gold mine because of sabotage. Old Joe Murdoch runs one of the last old-style gold mines on the Coromandel peninsula, but as Ratu discovers he is in trouble.

An Egyptian exhibition, a terrified phone call, two mysterious deaths — and suddenly Prof Larry Fischer is the only survivor of the team who excavated the Tomb of the Priest Kina.