A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His sonhas been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because heis the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link --the means of locating the most important cache of ancient knowledge everassembled: the legendary Library of Alexandria, which vanished withouttrace fifteen hundred years ago. Now, Malone is forced to join the searchfor a forgotten truth hidden within that vast literary treasure -- a truththat, if revealed, will have grave consequences, not only for Malone, butfor the balance of world power ...