The desert of souls
By: Howard Andrew Jones
Series: Dabir and Asim
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781781854648; 9781781854631; 9781781854624
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: In ninth-century Baghdad, a stranger pleads with the vizier to safeguard the bejewelled 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.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2011.