Sandstorm - Rollins, James

''Rollins is what you might end up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together'' New York TimesAn 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