Sandstorm

Sandstorm is the first book in the Sigma Force series.

Synopsis
From www.jamesrollins.com:

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.

Part 1
See /Part 1 plot/

An explosion rocks the British Museum. Darpa of sigma force is tasked to investigate.

Painter Crowe is introduced to Safia al-Maaz and Kara Kensington, archaeologists who work at the museum, whom discover ancient secrets lost to time, natural phenomena, and connections to the Tunguska event. The embark onto a massive journey to find a lost city.

Part 2
See /Part 2 plot/

The expedition to Ubar starts. Kara Kensington, Safia, Painter, and Coral head together.

[=Omaha Dunn and his brother Danny join them as well.

They go to the Kensington Estate in Oman. As they rest for the moment, they do not wish to waste much time to achieve their goal of discovering the secrets of Ubar. They freshen up and, hours later, head to the harbor of Muscat. They take a yacht loaned by the Sultan of Oman.

Cassandra is hot on their tail, funded by the mysterious Guild. Escaping custody, she pursued them with a team of men to the yacht. Kidnapping Safia, Cassandra blows up the yacht in an attempt to kill Painter and his friends.

however, Painter and friends survived and waship. He had to reveal his true purpose as a member of DARPA and Sigma Force on the tail of his former partner.

Part 3
/Part 3 plot/ Tombs

Part 4 The Gates of Ubar
/Part 4 plot/ The Gates of Ubar

Part 5
/Part 5 plot/

Epilogue
/Epilogue/

Mythology
The mythology of Sandstorm is vast and unique.

In 1908, a meteorite struck Siberia in what is now known as the Tungska event. This event produced several items that would be used in iron heart in a statue in The London Museum in 2004.

Characters

 * Painter Crowe - Member of darpa and member of expedition to Oman
 * Cassandra Sanchez - former member of darpa and Guild member - antagonist
 * Safia al-Maaz
 * Kara Kensington
 * Coral Novak
 * Omaha Dunn
 * Danny Dunn