"A collector, Mr Wilkinson, is always collecting. This is the nature of the beast." So says London antiquities dealer Nikos Volanakis, who bought a statue of the Pharaoh Akhenaten from a smuggler assuming that he would be able to sell it to a wealthy antiquities collector for a ten-fold profit. When the statue is stolen from Volanakis' gallery he decides to enlist the services of a distant cousin, the Greek-English adventurer Hugh Wilkinson, to get...