The glittering tradition of sword-and-sorcery sweeps into the sands of
ancient Arabia with the heart-stopping speed of a whirling dervish in
this thrilling debut novel from new talent Howard Andrew Jones
In 8th-century Baghdad, a stranger pleads with the vizier to safeguard
the bejeweled tablet he carries, but he is murdered before he can
explain. Charged with solving the puzzle, the scholar Dabir soon
realizes that the tablet may unlock secrets hidden within the lost city
of Ubar, the Atlantis of the sands. When the tablet is stolen from his
care, Dabir and Captain Asim are sent after it, and into a
life-and-death chase through the ancient Middle East.
Stopping the thieves--a cunning Greek spy and a fire wizard of the
Magi--requires a desperate journey into the desert, but first Dabir and
Asim must find the lost ruins of Ubar and contend with a mythic,
sorcerous being that has traded wisdom for the souls of men since the
dawn of time. But against all these hazards there is one more that may
be too great even for Dabir to overcome....
