Detachment "Sigma" - 1

Dedicated to Katherine, Adrien and RG, the new generation

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Defense Research Advanced Planning Department

Case No. Alfa-42-PKR

Squad "SIGMA"

Part one

fire and rain

British museum

London, England

Harry Masterson was to die in thirteen minutes.

If Harry had guessed this, he would have smoked the last cigarette in his life to the very filter. However, he stubbed out his cigarette after three hasty puffs and hurriedly pushed the smoke away from his face. If he's caught smoking outside the break room, that son of a bitch Flemming, the museum's head of security, will hit him on the first number. Harry had already been put on probation a week ago for being two hours late for duty.

Muttering an obscenity, Harry slipped the extinguished cigarette into his pocket. You can smoke it on the next break. If there's a break at all tonight.

Thunder could be heard even through the thick brick walls. The winter thunderstorm began shortly after midnight with a furious cannonade of hail, followed by a flood that threatened to wash London into the Thames. Lightning with many-pronged pitchforks slashed the sky from edge to edge. According to the BBC weather reporter, this storm has been one of the worst in a decade. The outrage of atmospheric electricity left half of the city without electricity.

Fate decreed that darkness covered precisely that part of London in which the British Museum stood on Big Russell Street, where Harry Masterson was on duty at that hour. Despite the fact that backup generators immediately began to work, providing emergency lighting, all security personnel were urgently called in to further protect the museum property. They will arrive at the site within the next half hour. Even though the surveillance cameras were still active, Flemming ordered the entire night shift to patrol the museum corridors, which stretched for two and a half miles. To do this, the guards had to split up.

Taking a flashlight, Harry directed the beam deep into the corridor. He hated nighttime rounds when the museum was in twilight. At this time, the light penetrates only through the windows from the street lamps. But now, due to a power outage, they went out. The museum was plunged into an ominous darkness, only in some places specks of reddish light from dim emergency lights flickered.

Harry desperately needed a hit of nicotine to calm his nerves, but he couldn't cool off for long. A job was waiting for him. Occupying the bottom rung in the hierarchy of the night shift, Harry was ordered to bypass the halls of the north wing - that part of the museum, which was the furthest from the basement, where the security office was located. But this does not mean that the path cannot be shortened. Turning his back on the long hallway leading into darkness, Harry approached the door leading to Queen Elizabeth II's Great Court.

This two-acre space was surrounded by the four wings of the British Museum. In the very center stood a large copper dome, the Round Reading Room - one of the best libraries in the world. At high altitude, all two acres were covered by huge vaults designed by Norman Foster, creating the largest covered area in Europe.

Unlocking the door, Harry dived into the womb of the courtyard. As in the museum buildings, darkness reigned here. Rain drummed on the glass ceilings somewhere high above. Still, Harry's footsteps echoed through the void. The sky was once again torn apart by a spear of lightning. For one dazzling moment, the glass roof, divided into thousands of triangular panels, lit up.

Books enlighten the soul, uplift and strengthen a person, awaken the best aspirations in him, sharpen his mind and soften his heart.

William Thackeray, English satirist

The book is a great power.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Soviet revolutionary

Without books, we now can neither live, nor fight, nor suffer, nor rejoice and win, nor confidently move towards that reasonable and wonderful future in which we unshakably believe.

Many thousands of years ago, in the hands of the best representatives of mankind, the book became one of the main weapons of their struggle for truth and justice, and it was this weapon that gave these people terrible strength.

Nikolai Rubakin, Russian bibliologist, bibliographer.

The book is a tool. But not only. It introduces people to the life and struggle of other people, makes it possible to understand their experiences, their thoughts, their aspirations; it makes it possible to compare, understand the environment and transform it.

Stanislav Strumilin, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

There is no better remedy for refreshing the mind than reading the ancient classics; as soon as you take one of them in your hands, even if for half an hour, you immediately feel refreshed, lightened and cleansed, uplifted and strengthened, as if refreshed by bathing in a clean spring.

Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

Those who were not familiar with the creations of the ancients lived without knowing beauty.

Georg Hegel, German philosopher

No failures of history and deaf spaces of time are able to destroy human thought, fixed in hundreds, thousands and millions of manuscripts and books.

Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian Soviet writer

The book is magic. The book changed the world. It contains the memory of the human race, it is the mouthpiece of human thought. A world without a book is a world of savages.

Nikolai Morozov, creator of modern scientific chronology

Books are the spiritual testament of one generation to another, the advice of a dying old man to a young man who begins to live, an order transmitted by sentries going on vacation to sentries who take his place.

Without books, human life is empty. The book is not only our friend, but also our constant, eternal companion.

Demyan Bedny, Russian Soviet writer, poet, publicist

The book is a powerful tool of communication, labor, struggle. It equips man with the experience of the life and struggle of humanity, expands his horizon, gives him knowledge with which he can make the forces of nature serve him.

Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Soviet party, public and cultural figure.

Reading good books is a conversation with the best people of the past, and, moreover, such a conversation when they tell us only their best thoughts.

René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and physiologist

Reading is one of the sources of thinking and mental development.

Vasily Sukhomlinsky, an outstanding Soviet teacher and innovator.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison, English poet and satirist

A good book is like a conversation with an intelligent person. The reader receives from her knowledge and generalization of reality, the ability to understand life.

Alexei Tolstoy, Russian Soviet writer and public figure

Don't forget that the most colossal tool of all-round education is reading.

Alexander Herzen, Russian publicist, writer, philosopher

Without reading there is no real education, there is not and cannot be any taste, or a word, or a multilateral breadth of understanding; Goethe and Shakespeare are equal to the whole university. Reading man survives centuries.

Alexander Herzen, Russian publicist, writer, philosopher

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Title: Sand Devil
Author: James Rollins
Year: 2004
Genre: Foreign Fiction, Foreign Fantasy, Foreign Adventure, Science Fiction, Adventure, Other

About The Sand Devil by James Rollins

Historical memos still excite the hearts of those who want to unravel their secrets. And people who are far from archeology are not averse to finding out a couple of clues to our planet and people who lived many centuries ago. That is why historical literature has always enjoyed and will continue to enjoy great success among readers.

And if you add a little fantasy, detective, action, season with mysticism to a historical novel? Then get the book "Sand Devil" by James Rollins. The author has a series of books, each of which tells about one or another mysterious place on our planet.

The plot of the book "Sand Devil" is not banal and fascinating. During research in the city of Ubara in the Arabian desert, scientist and millionaire Reginald Kensington disappears without a trace. Prior to this, the archaeologist created his own gallery, in which he collected all the treasures found in Ubar. After his disappearance, there was an explosion in the gallery, as a result of which a very interesting item was found. Inside the stone statue, experts found a metal heart that completely repeats the real human heart.

The scientist's daughter goes there twenty years later to unravel the mystery of her father's disappearance. But, as is usually the case in our world, there is a group that is not opposed to finding treasures for themselves and taking possession of the amazing power that is in the dungeons of Ubara.

The book "The Sandy Devil" at first seems to be trying to confuse its reader, and not just the main characters. In addition, there are also a lot of characters in the book, and the events associated with them. But after reading, you understand why James Rollins needed it.

The book keeps you in suspense until the very last page. And, again, not only the reader, but also the heroes, because in almost the entire history they are constantly on the verge of death.

The book "Sand Devil" is beautiful in that it contains the mysteries of history, which are described in great detail. In addition, James Rollins does not miss the opportunity to present his interpretation of the secrets and everything that our Earth keeps.

The work is very rich: you will visit both the beautiful desert and the tombs, and you will observe how good triumphs over evil. In addition, all the characters are very versatile, they all own the latest technologies that are simply amazing, they are all smart and quick-witted.

You won't have to puzzle over what exactly James Rollins meant in this or that chapter, but you won't be bored either. The Sand Devil book is a mixture of historical fact and fiction that, to some extent, answers some questions, but also gives birth to others.

The book "Sand Devil" makes you think, reflect, analyze, but it does not strain. You can relax and enjoy the incredible story of James Rollins. We recommend the book to anyone who is not indifferent to history, who wants to have a good time reading a good book, and who wants to feel like an archaeologist or a scientist who puzzles over what this world sometimes presents us with.

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Quotes from The Sand Devil by James Rollins

If the Lord God had ordained man to surf the oceans, he would not have turned dinosaurs into jet fuel.

As they say, necessity, damn it, is the mother of progress.

Often a panic attack is preceded by paranoia, a feeling of overwhelming anxiety that makes you see threat and danger where there is none.

When a person constantly looks back, he stumbles more often.

Any criminal organization is like a mythical Hydra: in place of one severed head, a new one inevitably grows.

Remember, my child, life does not move in a straight line, but in a circle.

There are many men with noble hearts in the world. It's just that some of them take a little longer to get to know themselves.

Life consists of merciless tragedies that strike suddenly. There is nothing permanent about her; no peace, no security.

The best lie is always the one closest to the truth...

True power can only be obtained by those who, in order to achieve their goals, are ready to break all laws.

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Genre: Fighting fiction

Year of publication: 2012

Series: Sigma Force

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Twenty years ago, the English archaeologist and millionaire Reginald Kensington disappeared without a trace in the legendary city of Ubar, lost in the Arabian Desert. After a mysterious explosion in a gallery founded by Kensington, where treasures from Ubar are collected, scientists discover inside a stone statue, split during the explosion, a strange metal detail - an exact copy of a human heart. The daughter of an archaeologist sets out a scientific expedition to unravel the mysteries of the desert. However, this explosion attracts the attention of not only scientists, but also an international criminal group seeking to take possession of some mysterious power hidden somewhere in the dungeons of Ubar.

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I really like the books of the mystery book series - the bestseller book and also I love the desert. And here both that and another in one copper. Moreover, the cauldron is the Arabian Desert, so I probably have very little information about it and somehow I never thought about it, about those ancient cities, about the peoples that inhabited this peninsula, everything brought me to other places in books. Although the creak of sand on the teeth, the face that needs to be hidden from it, because the sand penetrates everywhere, into any wrinkles and there’s nothing to say about the eyes, I experienced all this in small quantities on myself, even though in a completely different place and a different desert (well, or area close to the desert).
This is the first book in the series about the Sigma detachment, I already read (it happened) the 7th book of Bloodline about it and therefore I decided to start with the first one and I think to go to the end, although all Rollins' books are in my plans for the future, they are very dynamic and exciting. The author from the first page throws you into a curious plot, into unusual adventures and does not let go of your imagination until the last. And he has so many events that you are amazed. So many new and interesting, although sometimes impossible, collapses that you wonder how so many things passed by you, why you were not interested in this before. Here and biology and physics and chemistry and archeology and much more. This is what I love about this author's books. Although, of course, I understand that this is a fairy tale and there are a lot of fictions in it, like in any other fairy tale, but it is written in such a way that I perceive everything as reality - not always, but often.
I don’t like it, as well as in all his books, and this is the third book that I read from him, that there is already a lot of shooting and blood. Moreover, the first part of the book was simply amazing, but the end, well, too boyish, with all the attributes of a struggle, shooting. And somehow it is strange that all the villains died, and all the right ones remained - although it should be so in a fairy tale, good always triumphs over evil. But how quickly all this happened, such was the superiority in numbers and equipment among bad boys and girls, and somehow everything went somewhere.
It was interesting to read about Rahim women, of course you understand that all these mutations are fiction, although who knows. About the artifacts that are present in three religions, this is generally the strongest in my opinion - well, I can’t get past religion just like that, everything there is interesting and informative for me, although I am an atheist or agnostic .... I do not know, but it is interesting to know the strengths and weaknesses.
I do not always and not all mythology love, but here it was very interesting to me, and the description of the desert is mine, mine. The underground city was simply mesmerizing.
I liked that the author explained at the end what came from, what facts and where he got them from. Of course, I again had to visit other sites, read about this or that event and phenomenon. This is why I like mystery books, they give room for curiosity and then satisfy it somewhere else. And the map of the Arabian Peninsula gives credibility to events and you follow the characters with curiosity and interest and guess riddles. And how I like that the books of the series are so rather big, you read, you read them with great pleasure and you don’t want them to end.
I liked the hero Painter, his rival in the Omaha love line somehow faded into the background, everyone was waiting for him to prove himself, since he is called Indiana Jones in the book, but somehow she didn’t really wait. At first, I wondered who Sophia would give her heart to in the end, but then everything became clear and probably logical.
Oddly enough, I liked Kara, and Safiya - she was given the main role very much - such a savior of the world, somehow it was all too much. In some ways, she liked it when she solved riddles, for example, but I didn’t particularly like her, something wasn’t enough, or vice versa, there was a lot.
In general, I rested with might and main and learned something new from the book.

George Barbashov

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Damn, when you read the beginning of reviews from livelib users and then compare with your own, it seems that you are the only positive one on this portal, everyone has such highly intelligent reviews, a million buzzwords, sometimes you even get the impression that they are participating in an invisible contest "who knows more terms than 800 ikes" . And we will try to write another review in our own words.
Finally, finally, this is a new book by Rollins, a favorite author whom I have been able to scold quite often lately, and the title is dedicated to the author!
Ha! And I’ll start the review by sending the unfaithful and stupid in the ass. Like this :) I like to surprise. Let's figure it out. Friends, for the first time I stuck a sticker in the book even before the introductory page with the title of the novel and the author's name, and the reason to decorate the book with a bright sticker was given by the footnote "read all the books of James Rollins" and below is a list of both his individual novels and a cycle about squad "Sigma" and here I wiped my nose to all the bastards who actively argued with me, foaming at the mouth proving that the collection in which the story about Seihan "Path of the Dead" was mentioned is included in the cycle of the sigma squad and is considered as +1 to cycle. What can I say, it is now officially documented that you go to the farm to catch butterflies and dragonflies, because even in this list of that collection of stories as adjoining and considered a volume included in the cycle - no! The "path" is indicated here, but as a collection, so I officially declare to the haters and those who don’t fumble and argue with me - The Seventh Execution is the 12th book of the Sigma cycle! Twelfth, do you understand?
I don’t smell like an intellectual review ... Let’s put the stickers aside for now and talk about impressions.
The last book that this author liked about Sigma was "Bloodline", perhaps because it also mentioned the guild - the squad preventing Sigma, in other words, a structure that had access to the latest developments in the field of scientific technology, like the Sigma squad, but was dark side, a coin that has fallen shadow side to the surface.
For in further books after the "line of blood" the guild no longer surfaced, but I did not believe until the last that the author had left it. It was she who made books with a cake with raisins, rum baba with fudge! In this story, the word guild came up, maybe that's why I'm happy with what Rollins presented to me, but I have one more option why I liked the book, or rather two options!
Genetics.
I noticed that Rollins' books on genetics are a hit with me! The same Bloodline was about genetics, the fourth book of the cycle - the seal of Judas was also about genetics, and I really liked it! Maybe that's the reason why I liked the novel.
But the third option is also possible, and the simplest and most unusual - in this, the twelfth part, the heroes from ... for a second have returned to us! - the first book! The first book... you are like a dreaming oasis, like a ghostly breeze in the vast desert - so far away, but not yet forgotten. The first novel in the cycle is the sand devil, it all started with you, my book profile began with you, reading other literature began with you (I used to read only books from the Glukhovsky universe for two years). I can call myself an expert on James Tchaikovsky (Rollins), when you go to Wikipedia to read information about him, you know, I participated in filling his page with information. Yes, yes, many of you have had a hand in the wiki pages? I am not boasting, but proud of the knowledge about this author and his work. I have never seen a review of his books more meaningful than mine \u003d P Therefore, it is very funny sometimes to read when someone else, a Rollins lover, is asked questions, and he gives him information, that's just like the collection "path of the dead" included in the cycle about Sigma. By the way, James Rollins' new novel about Sigma has already been written and will be submitted to the editor in early June, and the publication in English will be presented on December 5, 2017, the book will be called "Crown of the Demon" - this is the 13th part about Sigma, around March - On April 18, we can expect translation and release from EKSMO. We wait. Well, fans and fans of Tchaikovsky, did you own this information? Yes? With all the details and dates? Right? (remembered the episode from Die Hard 4, when Timothy Olyphant asked his thug: are you holding her? Right?)
Here, I have listed three reasons why I might like the Seventh Plague. Reading the bone maze and the sixth extinction, I already thought that the author had written out, but no, James, you are on a horse and still on a horse!
YEAAAAA!!!
Now let's get back to stickers. Here is one of them I stuck in order not to forget to ask about this.
Not in the first book, I come across the mention as an example of tycoons - Howard Hughes, Henry Ford and John Rockefeller. Tell me, why only these three and only in that order? It seems that there is some kind of secret community, somewhere in the dungeon, in which all the authors of the world, as if Freemasons gather and peep over each other’s work: he mentioned Hughes, Ford and Rockefeller, I’ll put them in my example.
Does it happen to you that you just read a new word in a book and decided to memorize it, having never met it before and already in the next it comes across to you, and then in the third and so on? Have you ever wondered how and why this happens, because since it has been mentioned so often lately, why has it never happened before? I have one of the last, this word is "Makabr". It has nothing to do with Rollins and the "seventh execution", just as an example, I saw it for the first time on the cover of the book published by ROSMEN, then I immediately came across it in Kostya Obraztsov's book "Red Chains", then I heard it somewhere else - then in the news of literature ... To this phenomenon, you can add the fires of St. Elmo. Do you know what it is? In this case, I have been familiar with this set of letters, unlike the macabra, for a very long time, but! - it was again mentioned in Obraztsov's book, which I read the previous one and now in Rollins' book :) Coincidence?) I have a lot of books on my "shelf" and choose to read in a row exactly those where the fires of St. Elmo met - this is nuuu, from the fantasy world. I really love the mysteries of the past and I watch a lot, study, read texts (not in literature, but, for example, in articles) about ghost ships or something like that, and I learned about the lights from there. This is a very mysterious, at the same time mystical and very bewitching sight. Google, who does not know what the fires of St. Elmo are. It was from such fascinating articles that I also learned about the ghost ship "Mary Celeste" which has a very strange and mysterious story, which was also mentioned in Obraztsov's book :)
Okay, we retired from Ford, Rockefeller and Hughes.
I have one moment for which I have to scold the author, I don’t want to do this, but I can’t say that the book was good when it contained what, in my opinion, can be called a blot on the letter.
There is such an episode in the plot (do not worry, it cannot be called a spoiler) when two people who are being searched all over the world are pierced on sheer nonsense. There is a brother and sister, they are both albino and lit up with bad company in bad times for themselves. But we are all people and we all need money (this is how this world works), so our characters got a job, let me remind you that these people are still hiding and so that they are not figured out they cover up with tattoo cosmetics and make documents with fictitious names and surnames. Everything seems to be true so far and there is nothing special, right? And here's what's next. Further we learn that these people with an interesting appearance invented the same surname, from which it is easy and immediately clear that they are brother and sister. And now back to the one they are looking for - brother and sister. Hmm, are they... Hmm... Conspiracy masters, of course. Why not take different surnames, so that if they came to one person, they could not connect him with the second? This trick does not threaten you with revealing the plot, because after reading it you didn’t understand anything, but it really played into the author’s hands to connect the plots, because if this incident hadn’t happened, I don’t know how I would have had to break Rollins’s head to come up with for me an alternative way of capturing these people to further connect with the storyline. I did not like it. This is tantamount to the fact that the author interferes in the course of judgments and behavior of the characters and does not allow them to act independently. The author should not be involved in the actions of his characters, he should write as a neutral person and give them the right to choose. There was another such moment in the book. They provoked a fight, the representative of the company where this fight took place apologized for the participant in the massacre and did it quite politely: I apologize for what happened, ”he said, walking along the corridor. - The measure will be taken. Certainly.
After these words, they push him and point the weapon. Maybe this person is bad, but he apologized, he knows how to do it, which means that not everything is so bad, then we will see another unusual act from this person, which makes it clear that he is not cold and not an inveterate villain. Therefore, this situation presses a little with its contrast. I wouldn't be able to kick a man in the mouth who apologized simply because he has misbehaved with other people in the past. Maybe. But at the moment he sincerely apologized. If he had provoked me after apologizing, then he would have given me in the teeth, but responding to kindness with anger at a specific period of time is unusual for me and is considered bad form, not upbringing, most likely I would not have aimed the barrel at him after that and filled up mission =)
There is also a funny point that can be discussed. There is a hero in the book, Commander Grayson Pierce, and so, this is an unusually smart person who has such ingenuity that he often has to explain his thoughts and guesses to others so that others understand. Rollins has a lot of hieroglyphs and images in his books, the author adds them and closely intertwines the plot with them, so we also see what the characters look at (a good feature of the author). In the next such image that our Persians are looking at, another image is encrypted that needs to be seen. This situation happens for the second time, since the heroes in the past have already looked at a similar picture only with different outlines, but the essence remains the same. And here is a picture in front of me in the book. I look at it and understand what the meaning is based on the previous picture. That's it, look, now it's time to continue reading the text, and here is what Gray Pierce says there:
- Yes, another one ...., hidden in an Egyptian drawing, - Jane nodded.
- But where is she? Gray asked. - I don't see anything. Grey, the same one I wrote about above, that his brain is a megobrain! But at the same time, I saw a picture hidden in another, simply based on the first one, similar in meaning and image. So what is it, can I be taken to the Sigma special squad? 8) Many people, having read the review, will not understand what the book is about. I add, a book about the fact that the detachment needs to save humanity from the threat of infection. The plot is built on several things: the invention of a talented scientist, about whom I already know everything, thanks to the documentary book by Evgeny Matyunin - Nikola Tesla; on the acquaintance of Nikola with Mark Twain, on the executions of Egypt, on the prophecy of Moses iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii the gods of Olympus, Zeus as a waiter for me, how masterfully you put it all together, my friend! I read, as I wrote above, a book about Tesla and I know that it really happened. "This" is a statement that he has discovered a new kind of energy! What is the future of humanity! What a Rollins! - took the scientific opinions of experts and created this type of energy based on bacteria, which... But what kind of bacteria, you can only find out by reading this book;) Summer is ahead, good mood, cool incendiary summer music!
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Detachment "Sigma" 01While I was reading this book, the physicist and the lyricist fought in me. The physicist muttered twice per page: "Enchanting nonsense. How can you read this? And don't you feel sorry for wasting time on this blizzard?" And the lyricist justified himself in approximately the same quantities: “Well, do I sometimes watch Die Hard, X-Men and Iron Man? lecturer on the history of the ancient world (oh, how we loved these lectures read by the newspaper "Top Secret"! =))), then it turns out to be a pretentious thriller in the scenery of the heat of the desert and the archaeological sites of Oman. If we remove from the book a herd of supermen, miserable turns from the "steel muscles" series and no less delusional than antimatter, the author's fantasies about pathogenesis in a single clan of the heirs of the Queen of Sheba, then this book would pull on a frail four. But nothing. All this and another wagon and a small cart of Hollywood cliches from the book will not go anywhere, no matter how gullible readers spit. The Abyss, which I had read before the same Rollins, did not cause such rejection in me. Although it is difficult to call it a masterpiece. The only thing that can save the "Sand Devil" is a film adaptation. There is enough action in the book to make it a box-office thriller. And on the screen, such popular science pseudo-historical fiction looks an order of magnitude more alive. I'll try to read another book about "Sigma". Maybe Rollins is still rehabilitated in my eyes? P.S. More bile against Rollins in the story about Ukrainian Indiana Jones.

The Sand Devil by James Rollins is the first in the Sigma Force series. This is a very rich novel that will make you immerse yourself not only in the adventures of the characters, but also in history and archeology.

Millionaire and archaeologist Reginald Kensington built a gallery twenty years ago in which he exhibited objects found in the city of Ubar in the Arabian desert. One day he went on another trip and disappeared without a trace.

An explosion occurs in a gallery built by a missing archaeologist. Many people have been brought in to find out why. As a result of the inspection, an unusual object was found inside a stone statue - it was a heart made of metal, but in its structure exactly the same as a human one. Kensington's daughter heads to the desert to find out what happened to her father twenty years ago. But the explosion attracted the attention of those who do not mind profiting from ancient treasures and the magical power hidden in them.

Agent Painter Crow must travel to the desert to find out the truth. Its main mission is to preserve scientific discoveries that can be harmful if they fall into the hands of villains. He is a great fit for this role, because he is young, strong, smart and fearless. Together with him, a group of archaeologists is sent to help uncover the secrets hidden in manuscripts from ancient times.

So, a previously lost, ancient city becomes a destination for many people. Some seek to keep its secrets, others - to use for their own purposes. The journey is very dangerous and full of surprises.

The novel is written very interestingly, the action does not stop throughout the story, which captivates and does not let go. The book will appeal to anyone who loves to read about adventure, historical research and excavations, who wants to learn ancient secrets with a certain amount of mysticism.

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