Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert government operative and head of an elite counterespionage team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat, Crowe's one-time partner, to retrieve the vital information she has stolen. Two extraordinary women and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to the desert. For new evidence exposed by the tragedy suggests that Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, is more than mere legend … and that something astonishing is waiting there. And her search for answers is about to lead Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator, into a world they never dreamed actually existed. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Now he embarks upon his most gripping and terrifying adventure yet: to a nightmare buried beneath a treacherous desert wasteland.Īn inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum-a devastating blast that sets off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world, as the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means. or tear down everything humankind has built over millennia of civilization.Nationally bestselling author James Rollins has transported readers to the dark heart of the Amazon, the bowels of the earth, far below the ocean, and the top of the world. But the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare to be unearthed at journey's end-an ageless power that lives and breathes, an awesome force that can create a utopia.

And her search for answers is about to lead Kara her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed actually existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, where something astonishing is waiting.Ī covert government operative hunting a dangerous turncoat-his former partner-is being drawn there as well.

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world.

James rollins sandstorm hardcover