The Sixth Extinction

Description

A remote military research station in Utah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! By the time help arrives every living thing for fifty miles has been annihilated. And blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and life on Earth balanced on a knife edge. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice, and the coming extinction of mankind.

James Rollins is the author of several bestselling novels and series, including the SIGMA force series. An amateur spelunker and scuba enthusiast, he also holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine. He currently lives and writes in Sacramento, California. www.jamesrollins.com

Nobody - and I mean nobody - does this stuff better than Rollins An adventure tale in the grand manner. Rollins takes the reader through horror and intrigue ... like no one else. The action never relents If you're a fan of smart, entertaining adventure fiction, this is your summer beach read writ large ... All the science, all the history, and all the locations are masterfully intertwined. The characters are multi- dimensional. And the story is, well, a corker - NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS Rollins has done it again. Real history and science play a key role in all of the action, which never wanes ... Definitely keep an eye out for this one - LIBRARY JOURNAL Rollins combines real-world science with high-octane action to create rousing stories of adventure that are as exciting as any movie - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES