Suddenly, their vessel nearly collided with a larger Chinese freighter (theJin Long Hsiang), and they alerted the Coast Guard.This man must have been condemned not only in this life but in the next." They were all surprised by the over 3,000 year-old mummified corpse inside, described as not entirely decomposed - a sinewy mess of decayed flesh and exposed musculature -- "juicy.The unethical Tatum succeeded in manipulating the news media, the construction engineers, the local crooked sheriff who sought reelection in the county, and the victim""s opportunistic, jaded and mercenary wife.He located he artifact in the archive vault and removed it.However, when he ship violently tilted, the box holding the artifact was dislodged from Krall""s hand.The next sequence was a pivotal turning point for he two sisters, occurring in the mid-1930s - decades before the present day of 1962.