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Sigma Force volume 6
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James Rollins
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Sigma Force director Painter Crowe gathers the usual crewĆmdr. Grayson Pierce; Pierce's best friend, Monk Kokkalis; lumbering Joe Kowalskit́o discover why an experimental agriculture site in Africa has been attacked and razed, killing everyone, including a U.S. senator's son. The future of mankind may depend, they learn, on the Doomsday key, a strange substance brought to England long ago by ancient Egyptians that holds the promise of a new and...
2) Sandstorm
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
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Twenty years after a wealthy British financier disappears near the site of a lost fabled city, the man's daughter leads an expedition of scientists in search of the city, which harbors a powerful but dangerous energy source with the potential to both fuel and destroy the planet.
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum - a devastating blast that sets off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world, as the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.
4) Map of Bones
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders dressed in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. The killers haven't come for the church's gold and valuable artwork, but for a priceless treasure secreted within: the preserved bones of the Three Magi who once came...
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Hooded men invade midnight mass at the Cologne Cathedral and slaughter almost everyone present, then break open a gold sarcophagus and steal... the bones of the Three Wise Men. Grayson Pierce, top agent in the Department of Defense's covert Sigma Force, takes a team to Rome, joins up with love-interest Rachel Verona, a carabinieri corps lieutenant, and her Vatican official uncle, Vigot. It seems that the Dragon Court, a medieval alchemical cult-cell...
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 3
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In Nepal, a strange plague has struck a remote Himalayan monastery, and a Nazi swastika is found on a cave wall. In Denmark, someone is buying up rare historical documents connected to Victorian scientists (for instance, Charles Darwin's family Bible), and the purchaser is desperate enough to kill for his prizes. In South Africa, a mythological beast is apparently alive and well and preying on wildlife. The author interweaves these stories, following...
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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"A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany ... and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland." "A continent away, madness...
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Sigma Force novels volume 4
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From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind-unknown, unstoppable... and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital. But a sudden and savage attack by terrorist hijackers turns the mercy ship into a floating...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c2007
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"From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind - a disease that's unknown, unstoppable ... and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow." "Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis - operatives of the shadowy covert organization SIGMA Force - search for answers to the bizarre affliction that has inexplicably washed ashore. But...
10) The Last Oracle
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 5
Description
In Washington, D.C., a homeless man takes an assassin's bullet and dies in Commander Gray Pierce's arms. A bloody coin clutched in the dead man's hand-an ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi-is the key to a conspiracy that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity. For what if it were possible to bioengineer the next great prophet-a new Buddha, Muhammad, or even Jesus? Would this Second...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The murder of what appears to be a homeless man propels the Sigma Force (The Judas Strain) into their most compelling and perilous adventure yet. The victim is a respected scientist, and the Sigma Force finds that his research leads to a rogue organization of scientists called the Jasons. This think tank of intellectual geniuses has developed a method to augment autistic children with special savant talents. The outcome, in the hands of several men...
12) The Doomsday Key
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 6
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At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh. The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve...
13) The Devil Colony
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Description
New York Times bestselling thrill-master James Rollins is back with The Devil Colony, another electrifying combination of suspense, history, science, action, and ingenious speculation. In The Devil Colony, Sigma Force stalwarts Painter Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce must investigate a gruesome massacre in the Rocky Mountains and root out a secret cabal that has been manipulating momentous events since the time of the original thirteen colonies....
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
15) Blood line
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Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
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Galilee, 1025. Infiltrating an ancient citadel, a Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure long hidden within the fortress's labyrinth: the Bachal Isu -- the staff of Jesus Christ -- a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that promises to change humankind forever. A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast of the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman. Commander Gray Pierce is enlisted...
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Sigma Force novels volume 8
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A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team.
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Sigma Force novels volume 9
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Dead men tell many tales, though Commander Gray Pierce, Sigma, and Vatican historians could do without the twisted history lesson when a pair of disturbing artifacts sent by a missing colleague point to a tomb said to hold riches and the secret behind an ancient empire.
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A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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When a remote military research station in Antarctica is completely decimated, Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force must solve a mystery from the land's distant past using an ancient map that leads them to a new form of death, buried under miles of ice, which could very well lead to the extinction of mankind.
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Sigma Force novels volume 11
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"In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery: a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings, and what do the paintings mean? Before any questions can...