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James Rollins is another author who knows how to write compelling adventures and one of my favorites is called Sandstorm. It starts off with an explosion at a London museum and a search for why it happened. This turns into a quest to Ubar, which is a supposedly lost city that was buried deep beneath the sands of the Arabian desert.
For something a little different, but still relevant to the theme you are looking for, I would also recommend a book called The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook. It's more of a historical mystery I suppose, but the story is good and had me with my nose deep in the book until late at night.