James Rollins (aka Jim Czajkowski) Sandstorm (2004, Avon, 587 pages, paper) starts out with destruction of an artifact a London science museum, and pretty soon we are dealing with meteorites and mysterious sinkholes and buried objects in the Arabian desert, and threats to the world. Early on there is a domestic EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack, with an accurate description of what could happen. As the tag-time like investigators go to Arabia on their "Raiders of the Lost Ark" like adventure, they find a fascinating artefact: a lost city Ubar, supposedly lost in a mysterious sinkhole, that leads to a bizarre underground lake, and Arabian dhow, and water in unusual allotropic form, able to house buckyballs of anti-matter inside, a potential revolutionary energy source. And there is a Queen of Sheba ("She") reproducing herself in secret for generations by parthogenesis (with the anti-matter); an explanation of Siberian Tunguska, and lots of connections between lesser Old Testament characters like Job. The writing and high-concept rather resembles Clive Cussler ("Sahara"); all it needs is Dirk Pitt. It certainly has all the maps and geography.
As I recall, Chrichton's 'Andromeda Strain' had explored the idea of a mini black hole or nuclear reaction inside a virus. Imagine if the COVID19 coronavirus spike protein had this capacity!
I'm not aware that this has become a movie yet. Maybe Christopher Nolan would do it!