Two ex-CIA agents, and former lovers, put aside their hatred for each other to find an ancient Arab artifact before a modern-day Nazi can use its hidden powers to change the outcome of World War II.

SYNOPSIS:

An M.I.T. physicist is killed and the manuscripts he was studying are stolen. The CIA hires Nathan Hawke and Kitty Carlito, two former agents -- and ex-lovers -- to get the manuscripts back. Considered by many to be the actual diaries of Muhammad, these manuscripts describe the foundation of Islam. One specific chapter mentions an area just outside Mecca called the 'Sands of Time' where Muhammad would go to talk with God and the other Prophets.

The CIA believes the manuscripts were stolen by a radical branch in the Deutches Kelleg, a Nationalist Group of Germans headed by Wolf Dietrich, whose goal is the formation of a Fourth German Reich. With Muhammad's diary in his possession, Dietrich is one step closer to traveling in time. All he needs now is the 'Work of Allah', a sacred astrolabe which protected Muhammad from the tremendous gravitational forces deep within the Sands of Time.

The Work of Allah was actually discovered by Nathan a few years earlier and is now owned by an old flame, Baroness Greta Von Bercham. When Nathan, Kitty and Dietrich turn up at Greta's Swiss chateau to get the Work of Allah, a firefight erupts. Greta's son, Stephen, is killed. The grief stricken Baroness asks Nathan, the boy's biological father, to go back in time to save Stephen's life. Reluctantly, Nathan agrees.

Before Nathan can save his son, Dietrich and his band of Nazis steal the Work of Allah and use its supernatural powers to go back to Germany in 1919 where they kidnap Albert Einstein. With the world's greatest physicist now in the hands of a Nazi fanatic, Nathan and Kitty must not only find a way to stop Dietrich from changing the outcome of World War Two, they must also find a way back to their 21st Century.

"The Sands of Time" is a mass-market, fast-paced, action/sci-fi adventure in the tradition of films like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "The Mummy", "Mission Impossible", and "Lara Croft - Tomb Raider"; with enough of an intellectual bend to appeal to the thinking "Matrix" audience; and a dash of magic and mysticism as in "Stargate." Nathan is an offbeat character, reminiscent of Indiana Jones ("Raiders") and Rick O'Connell ("The Mummy") but with a modern day intelligence of Ethan Hunt ("Mission Impossible"). Kitty is every bit his equal. A Latin version of Lara Croft, she is a strong, physically capable and humorous woman in her own right. Although her relationship with Nathan is often adversarial, the two characters share a deep, romantic connection that even time cannot destroy." Joseph Landsman, Woofenill Works