Sigma Force #1
William Morrow
July 2004
On Sale: June 29, 2004
464 pages ISBN: 0060580666 EAN: 9780060580667 Kindle: B000FC1SCW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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. Now
he embarks upon his most gripping and terrifying adventure
yet: to a nightmare buried beneath a treacherous desert
wasteland.
An 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.
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 Kara and her friend
Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful
curator, into a world they never dreamed actually existed.
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.
Two extraordinary women and their guide, the international
adventurer Omaha Dunn, are not the only ones being drawn to
the desert. Former U.S. Navy SEAL Painter Crowe, a covert
government operative and head of an elite counterespionage
team, is hunting down a dangerous turncoat, Crowe's onetime
partner, to retrieve the vital information she has stolen.
And the trail is pointing him toward Ubar.
But the many perils inherent in a death-defying trek deep
into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before
the nightmarish secrets to be unearthed at journey's end.
What is hidden below the sand is more than a valuable relic
of ancient history. It is an ageless power that lives and
breathes -- an awesome force that could create a utopia or
tear down everything humankind has built during millennia
of civilization. Many lives have already been destroyed by
ruthless agencies dedicated to guarding its mysteries and
harnessing its might. And now the end may be at hand for
Safia, for Kara, for Crowe, and for all the interlopers who
wish to expose its mysteries, as it prepares to unleash the
most terrible storm of all ...
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