The provided text introduces Annja Creed, an archaeologist who finds herself embroiled in a global search for Solomon's Jar, a mystical artifact. Her journey takes her from the Amazon basin, where she encounters armed mercenaries, to Amsterdam, facing off against the Russian mafiya, and then to a confrontation in an English manor with an ancient order called the White Tree Lodge. Annja continues her quest in Jerusalem, where she meets a Kabbalist named Tsipporah and becomes entangled in a riot, and later in Israel, she uncovers a counterfeiting operation involving the jars and a conspiracy by the Malkuth Foundation. Finally, in Rio de Janeiro, Annja and her associate Aidan Pascoe must prevent the true Solomon's Jar from falling into the wrong hands amidst a violent showdown at a metal foundry.