Jimgrim all but disappears in this particular book in the series. It's Jeff Ramsden all the way through. And all the way through takes the reader from New York and Boston to West Virginia and, finally, a showdown at Lake Tahoe, on the other side of the continent. Looted archeological treasure is the spur for the story. That, and a worldwide plot by black Africans to take over the world. The book is worth reading for no other reason than its black revolutionary reading of Moses and the Exodus.

Otherwise, Mundy has once more turned to a novel of mere action and no thought, although you might see some schisms within the practitioners of Theosophy reflected in the plot. Mundy wrote this story in 1922 and joined the Theosophical Society in 1923.

Ultimately, the story makes you long for the return of Jimgrim and the setting of the Middle East. ( )