The Anomaly: A Novel of the Empty Quarter
In The Anomaly: A Novel of the Empty Quarter, professor Emily Goddard, a Middle East scholar from Princeton, heads a team of specialists investigating a bizarre “anomaly” underneath the sand dunes of Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter. Plaguing their work are rumors of a mysterious lost city, buried by a colossal sand storm in ancient times. Robert W. Lebling ’69 is a journalist and the author of two previous books.

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