The biological science is scary, indeed terrifying, and plausible. Some of the “wisdom of the ancients” stuff is still farfetched (they knew about DNA how?) but this novel only relies on it enough to make the story work.
The usual coincidences and luck help our heroes out, but this is a thriller and we readers accept his as part of the books’ universe. The sheer amount of action is toned down a notch from Bones, but that lets us understand better what’s going on, and the focus on key characters is tighter. As his characters work through their increasingly intertwined business and personal lives, what appears to be a natural phenomenon at Christmas Island in the Pacific turns out to involve the nefarious Guild, a (real) historical mystery going back to Marco Polo, and the quest for the ultimate biological weapon. If the character work feels just a hair below the excellence of Bone, Rollins more than makes up for it in other ways. a Judas.This takes over the #1 slot among Rollins novels from Bone Labyrinth with tighter, better focused action and good characterization. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Gray Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one, for any one of them could be. As a relentless madman dogs their every step, Gray and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.Ī world away, SIGMA's Commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions.
Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis-operatives of SIGMA Force-search for answers to the bizarre affliction.
Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels.įrom the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind-a disease that's unknown, unstoppable. New York Times bestselling author James Rollins returns with a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction
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