An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum - and sets off alarms in clandestine organisations around the world...The brilliantly, fast-paced and griping thriller from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of MAP OF BONES.

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

An 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