The eponymous Sandstorm being the greatest challenge. Attacks on their ship kidnappings a mega sand and electrical storm mysterious assassins. (It’s a long book!) Around every corner there is danger, and I anxiously awaited how the characters would survive each challenge. The adventure and chase is what drew me to Sandstorm.

The team sets out to save the world, or really, stop the world from blowing up. In addition to the Sigma members, our team has Safia, an archaeologist born in Oman, Kara, the woman Safia grew up with, Omaha, another archaeologist, and Safia’s former fiancé, Danny, Omaha’s brother, and Clay, Safia’s intern. I love the idea that there is a group of soldiers out there saving the world with brains, not just blowing stuff up. And keeping that antimatter away from Hydra the Guild. He and his partner, Coral Novak, a MIT physicist, are tasked with finding antimatter in the Oman desert. Imagine super-smart, super-educated, super soldiers. Sigma Force is a DARPA agency where recruits all the brainy shoulders. There is too much going on with the plot to recap. Twelve books published in a series must mean something, right? And while I’m desperately waiting for the release of the new Seven Wonders book, I thought I’d give this series a try. I have seen a lot of press lately for the Sigma Force books, with the release of #12, Seventh Plague. Sandstorm is the confluence on all the genres I look for in a book – Action, Adventure, Mystery, History, with a smattering of physics. or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia.

And the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare waiting to be unearthed at journey's end: an ageless and awesome power that could create a utopia. But others are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes.

And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington 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 existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert. Genres: Action & Adventure, Mystery, ThrillersĪn inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. Published by Harper Collins on April 26th 2005

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