The Moses Legacy

Chapter 30

Goliath was looking at the entrance to the tomb that Daniel and the others had entered. He wanted to act now, firmly and decisively, but there were too many people about. It wasn’t just the guard outside the tomb, it was also the Egyptian soldiers and the throngs of tourists. There were just too many people.

He had followed them there from Cairo with relative ease. The tracking program that he had smuggled into Daniel’s phone had started transmitting regular updates on his position again after the police gave it back to Daniel in London, and Goliath had been tracking him ever since.

Goliath had raced to Cairo airport after him and had seen Daniel, Gabrielle and their Egyptian friend at the desk for an internal flight to Luxor. He guessed that the Valley of the Kings was their destination, so he had simply booked himself on to another flight that was due to land shortly after theirs. From the airport he had taken a taxi to the valley and then made sure to keep them in his sights. He had already been told that they were working with someone important in the Egyptian academic and political hierarchy and so he knew that he would have to tread carefully.

Now it seemed that they could gain access to places that others couldn’t. This could be both a help and a hindrance. He wanted to get them alone, but it didn’t help if they were in an area inaccessible to the public, as it was also inaccessible to him. And by the same token, it did him no good being able to keep a close eye on where they were, if others were milling about and able to see precisely the same thing.

He would have to bide his time.

The trouble was that they had hired a jeep while he was relying on a taxi. He had told the driver to wait and paid him handsomely for doing so, but he could hardly leap into the taxi and say ‘Follow that jeep’ without giving away that he was up to something. And he could hardly expect a local taxi driver to help a foreigner against a powerful public official.

But the very fact that they were visiting places that others couldn’t get to was an encouraging sign. He sensed that an opportunity would present itself very soon.