Synopsis: "A key. An ancient automaton. A race against the devil to the deep blue sea . . . It started in 48 B.C. when a centurion on a rescue mission for Caesar went down with the ship in a storm. With his last breath, he saw the object of Caesar's seafaring excursion—an accursed, mechanical Minotaur—hit bottom . . . and start to walk away! The quest for the key and the mythological automaton reunites Annja, Garin and his old mentor Roux in Genoa, and pits them in a race across Europe to beat a foe as resourceful and skilled as Annja herself." — Excerpted and quoted from this book's product page on Amazon.com as of 2013-10-31.