![]() ![]() Rollins writes less like Michael Crichton than Stan Lee. 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. 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. ![]() , 2003) and now the hot sands of Saudi Arabia. Each of his thrillers has featured as a central character an extreme environment, most recently the Arctic ice ( Ice Hunt If he weren't such a good action writer, Rollins might make a dynamite climatologist. ![]()
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