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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, the latest
riveting, deeply imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series,
told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical
mystery, and pulse-pounding action. It begins in Africa . . . A
United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an
alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary
playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a
dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and
animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an
exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a
cursed site in the jungle -- known to locals as the Kingdom of
Bones --and sweeping across Africa, threatening the rest of the
world. What has made the biosphere run amok? Is it a natural event?
Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it? Commander Gray
Pierce and Sigma Force are prepared for the extraordinary and have
kept the world safe, vigilance for which they have paid a tragic
personal price. Yet, even these brilliant and seasoned scientific
warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening
development--or know how to stop it. As they race to find answers,
the members of Sigma quickly realize they have become the prey. To
head off global catastrophe, Sigma Force must risk their lives to
uncover the shattering secret at the heart of the African
continent--a truth that will illuminate who we are as a species and
where we may be headed . . . sooner than we know. Mother
Nature--red in tooth and claw--is turning against humankind,
propelling the entire world into the Kingdom of Bones.
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