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  • The Desert of Souls

  • Dabir & Asim, Book 1
  • By: Howard Andrew Jones
  • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
  • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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The Desert of Souls

By: Howard Andrew Jones
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
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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....

©2011 Howard Andrew Jones (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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Fun book, weird narration.

So my own main gripe is with the narration. The book itself is great. Even the narrator is not bad, just perhaps not suited to this book. I felt that he narrated every single character decently besides the main character himself which really takes you out the story as he makes the main character sound like an American movie trailer announcer while the other Chars are more toned down. Would have been neat to have the story narrated by a native speaker instead.

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Love the book, took a bit to get used to narration

I read this series 8 years ago and loved it. Took me awhile to get used to the narrator. His voices for other characters don't sound much different than the main characterthat is narratingthe tale. About half way through I was able to focus more on the story than trying to figure out which characters voice it was supposed to be.

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