James Rollins 
Sandstorm 
The first adventure thriller in the Sigma series

‘Rollins is what you might end up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together’ New York Times An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum – and sets off alarms in clandestine organisations around the world…Lady Kara Kensington’s family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead her into a world she never imagined existed: a lost city, buried beneath the Arabian desert, where something astonishing is waiting…A covert government operative hunting down a traitor is being drawn there. But at the end of a perilous journey lies an ageless power that can create a utopia – or tear down everything humankind has built over millennia of civilisation…’A non-stop thrill-a-minute ride’ Tess Gerritsen