Seamus Tripp was not a man to take accusations of self-aggrandizement lightly. He had spent too much of his life building a reputation to let a crazed professor of Egyptology scuttle his career with disparaging remarks about his “inability to follow instructions” and his “attempts to hijack the expedition” and his “complete lack of moral compass.”

Indeed, Seamus knew perfectly well what the inverted pyramid meant, and his keeping it secret from Kamila had nothing to do with any grandiose plans for fortune, glory, or self-promotion. Why would he need those things? He was Seamus Tripp, world-famous adventurer. In fact, he thought, as Kamila ranted to the assembled camp, his plan all along had simply been to get to the top of the pyramid – well, the bottom, actually – verif...

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