After an intervention in a museum run by a foundation, Marcas is announced dead and this is where the story begins. He is indeed propelled all the way back to the origins of the initiation rites in ancient Egypt.
Jacques Ravenne is the pseudonym of a high-ranking Freemason with intimate knowledge of the history and culture of the Order.
Éric Giacometti used to be an investigative journalist who reported extensively on Freemasonic mores.