The Mission

Nil— the heart of the great Ra— is dying. Day by day, the river that gives life to Egypt becomes shallower and shallower. Drought takes hundreds and thousands of human lives. Rebels who follow a new mysterious religion accuse the priests and the “living god”—the young Pharaoh—of what is happening. To help his royal ward comes Taita again: a mysterious sorcerer endowed with the mind and cunning of a born courtier and an astonishing gift for communicating with the Gods. In search of the answer, he sets out on a long and dangerous journey to the sources of the Nile…