At a remote monastery in tibet, a rare and dangerous artifact mysteriously disappears. Aloysius pendergast agrees to take up the search that leads him and constance to the maiden voyage of the britannia--and to an atlant...At a remote monastery in tibet, a rare and dangerous artifact mysteriously disappears. Aloysius pendergast agrees to take up the search that leads him and constance to the maiden voyage of the britannia--and to an atlantic crossing fraught with terror.