Cocky US secret agent Derek Lloyd stops Sydney's tai-chi session to summon her for a top-secret mission: preventing the second of two legendary Paracelsus scrolls, one of which he already has, falling in the wrong hands. The alchemist allegedly found the formula to make gold, which could disrupt world economy. She refuses to go without Nigel, to a rebel region in Peru, to search the villa where war profiteer Arthur Stanton may have hidden it. Coping with the dangers of a war zone, including two-faced fixers, a land mined Nigel steps on, rebel patrols and HQ in the very villa, a deadly snake, strong indications that Derek is a traitor, and a rival US agent, they still face the trapped Paracelsus site and the dilemma what to do with the completed scrolls.
—KGF Vissers