Book 1: Sandstorm
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London
museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world.
And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend
Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator; and their
guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never
dreamed existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert. But others
are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes. And
the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the
Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare waiting to be unearthed at
journey's end: an ageless and awesome power that could create a utopia ...
or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia.
Book 2: Map of Bones
A mysterious biblical object, nefarious Vatican spies and a deadly
centuries-old religious cabal.sound familiar? Sacramento veterinarian
Rollins offers more Da Vinci Code.style thrills for the seriously
addicted. In this seventh outing, 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 that still operates
within the Catholic Church, is to blame, and it also seems that the bones
of the Magi aren't really bones, but the highly reactive Monatomic gold
that the group plans to use to accomplish its ultimate goal.Armegeddon.
Rollins has few peers in the research department, which makes the historical
material fascinating, and he keeps the dialogue believably colloquial and
the incidental elements motivated.and plausible for at least short stretches.
Clumsy romance is mostly overcome by lots of action. Dan Brown-ers looking
for methadone will add to Rollins's usual solid numbers.
Book 3: Black Order
The globe-trotting adventurers of Sigma Force, that elite American special-
ops team, return in this high-powered thriller. The story begins cryptically.
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rare historical documents connected to Victorian scientists (for instance,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
the Sigma Force team members as they risk their lives to get to the heart of
one of humankind's greatest mysteries: the origins of life itself. Rollins
keeps getting better with every novel, and his fast-paced thrillers are
feasts for the imagination. Why Hollywood hasn't snapped his books up yet is
a mystery, but it's doubtful any big-screen version could capture the author's
gung-ho enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity.
Book 4: Judas Strain
The special-ops trained scientists of Sigma Force battle the criminals of the
shadowy Guild in bestseller Rollins's lively third Sigma Force thriller (after
Black Order). An ancient and deadly plague, the Judas Strain (which afflicted
Marco Polo), has suddenly re-emerged. Gray Pierce, a Sigma operative, and
Seichan, a Guild defector, pursue clues to the nature of the plague to the
Vatican, Istanbul (with a fine shootout in the Hagia Sophia mosque), Marco
Polo's tomb and, finally, Cambodia's Angkor Wat. Meanwhile, Guild members
hijack a cruise ship full of plague victims (to provide experimental subjects
for the weaponizing of the plague), and Gray's parents are taken hostage
(though the senior Grays prove feistier than their kidnappers reckon).
Sophisticated the plot isn't, but Rollins includes more than enough action and
suspense to keep readers turning pages.
Book 5: The Last Oracle
At the start of bestseller Rollins's rousing fifth Sigma Force novel (after
The Judas Strain), the group's leader, Cmdr. Gray Pierce, encounters a homeless
man as he's crossing the Mall in Washington, D.C., near Sigma Force's secret
lair far beneath the Smithsonian Castle. The man, who's really an MIT neurology
professor, collapses in Pierce's arms and dies after passing him a strange coin,
thus kicking off a far-flung adventure whose plot threads include the Oracle of
Delphi, autistic savant children with strange implants behind their ears,
Gypsies, power-mad Russians bent on unleashing enough radioactivity to poison
the world, rogue American spy agencies and genetically enhanced wolves and
tigers. Lots of absorbing scientific information and tantalizing sentences like
With two rifles strapped to his back and a boy and a chimpanzee in tow, Monk
marched down the pitch-black tunnel keep the pages flying by.
Book 6: Doomsday Key
Bestseller Rollins's labyrinthine sixth Sigma Force thriller (after The Last
Oracle) offers plenty of intriguing science and history lessons. Sigma Force
director Painter Crowe gathers the usual crew.Cmdr. Grayson Pierce; Pierce's
best friend, Monk Kokkalis; lumbering Joe Kowalski.to 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 powerful medicine.
A few of the book's many highlights include genetic manipulation, traitorous
beautiful women, illuminated manuscripts, saints, prophecies, curses and
miracles. Rollins deftly juggles all this and more as the Sigma team races
from the depths of the Vatican to the outer reaches of Norway toward an
explosive confrontation with the shadowy forces of evil known as the Guild.
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