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Sandstorm CD [Abridged] [Audio CD]

James Rollins (Author), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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If he weren't such a good action writer, Rollins might make a dynamite climatologist. Each of his thrillers has featured as a central character an extreme environment, most recently the Arctic ice (Ice Hunt, 2003) and now the hot sands of Saudi Arabia. But while Rollins writes settings and scenes that sizzle, what's caught in the heat are usually familiar characters grappling with far-fetched threats, and so it is here. That one male lead is a danger-courting archeologist named Omaha Dunn seems less parodic than tired, and the novel's premise of a hoard of antimatter hidden in the legendary city of Ubar is almost as ridiculous as the idea that this cache has been guarded for millennia by an order of women who propagate without men, via parthenogenesis. Rollins writes less like Michael Crichton than Stan Lee. Most of his readers won't care, though, because there's just enough scientific gloss on the nonsense to make it palatable, and anyway, what they want, and what he delivers, is action, as Omaha and an American military agent, Painter, join forces with two Mideastern women, one a scientist, the other a billionaire, to locate the steadily destabilizing antimatter before it's snatched by a villainous cabal, or worse, blows up the planet. And that's why they'll buy this book in numbers big enough to have it flirt with national bestseller lists.
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An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. 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. But others are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes. 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 . . . or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia.

There are terrifying mysteries hidden deep in the desert sands.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A rollicking fun read!!, July 12 2004
This review is from: Sandstorm (Hardcover)
First let me say that Lady Kensington has a much smaller role than I was lead to believe after reading the synopsis. Aside from that, this is a fun read. I have read all of Rollins' previous books and this is one of his best! The plot was fast moving and you don't get confused as to how the characters relate to one another. The ending was a little obvious, which is why I didn't give it five stars, but if you like adventure novels (and I most certainly do!) you will enjoy "Sandstorm."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Not His Best, By Far!, Sep 6 2007
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NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sandstorm (Mass Market Paperback)
Try another of his books. AMAZONIA was OK, ICEHUNT even better.

This one is VERY late to get things going then fizzles and dies.

Oh, and he may be a vet, yet his science is more fiction than fact!

Dug-up...buckyballs to enclose ...antimatter - and all this to cause a couple of explosions and propell a boat...OK

My Advice: Pass
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Sandstorm review, April 9 2010
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Yves Rathe "FireDiver" (Montreal, Qc Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sandstorm (Mass Market Paperback)
Great book,

I've read most of the subsequent Sigma Force series written by Mr Rollins and I enjoyed all of them.

This particular novel answers all those questions I had about many implied facts that they were using in the follow ups to this book.

The story is well tied together and credible from beginning to end.

Basically, a good relaxing and entertaining read!

I highly recommend!

Firediver :o)
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