Status Updates From Maître Hiram et le roi Salomon

Chapter 1 is off to a smashing start. Check out this quote, setting up the premise:

“That desert separated Israel from Egypt, the hated civilization Solomon had secretly admired since childhood…The son of David had suppressed his predilection for the empire of the Pharaohs. He had shared his secret with no-one, and kept it above all from his father who might have gone as far as to banish him.”