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As the British and Egyptian armies under General Kitchener mount a massive campaign to free Khartoum from the fanatic Dervish forces, one young man promises his dying mother to set out and seek the truth of his long-lost father's fate.

Did he die in battle against the Mahdi's frenzied hordes in 1883? Did he escape and survive against all odds? Sixteen-year-old Gregory Hilliard stakes his life on discovering the truth, helped by his loyal friend Zaki and two captains, the brothers Edgar and Rupert Clinton.

Born and raised in Egypt, fluent in native languages, Gregory is pitched into the heat of war as interpreter for the British command, and through battle and peril unravels a tragic and life-changing mystery with its roots in faraway England.