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Sandstorm (Paperback)

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    This sixth action-packed thriller by James Rollins is set deep in the Arabian desert, where various parties race to be the first to a lost city and the secrets it holds. A bizarre explosion destroys a rare and valuable collection of Mideastern antiquit......more

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This sixth action-packed thriller by James Rollins is set deep in the Arabian desert, where various parties race to be the first to a lost city and the secrets it holds. A bizarre explosion destroys a rare and valuable collection of Mideastern antiquities at the British Museum. Lady Kara Kensington, whose family donated the collection, is determined to find out the cause of the accident. Clues lead her and her companions--the collection`s curator, a daredevil archaeologist, and a U.S. secret operative--to the semi-mythical city of Ubar. Once there, they will find an ancient energy source and its fiercely protective guardians, a combination that poses a threat to the entire world.

Author:
Rollins, James
ISBN:
9780062017581
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
718
Publish Date:
04/26/2011
Publisher:
HarperCollins

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  • If he weren't such a good action writer, Rollins might make a dynamite climatologist. Each of his thrillers has featured as a central character an extreme environment, most recently the Arctic ice (Ice Hunt, 2003) and now the hot sands of Saudi Arabia. But while Rollins writes settings and scenes that sizzle, what's caught in the heat are usually familiar characters grappling with far-fetched threats, and so it is here. That one male lead is a danger-courting archeologist named Omaha Dunn seems less parodic than tired, and the novel's premise of a hoard of antimatter hidden in the legendary city of Ubar is almost as ridiculous as the idea that this cache has been guarded for millennia by an order of women who propagate without men, via parthenogenesis. Rollins writes less like Michael Crichton than Stan Lee. Most of his readers won't care, though, because there's just enough scientific gloss on the nonsense to make it palatable, and anyway, what they want, and what he delivers, is action, as Omaha and an American military agent, Painter, join forces with two Mideastern women, one a scientist, the other a billionaire, to locate the steadily destabilizing antimatter before it's snatched by a villainous cabal, or worse, blows up the planet. And that's why they'll buy this book in numbers big enough to have it flirt with national bestseller lists. Agent, Russell Galen. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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