Mother Nature-red in tooth and claw-is turning against humankind, propelling the entire world into the Kingdom of Bones. Book Synopsis Revisit the remarkable debut novel that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author James Rollins. 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. The New York Times says, Rollins is what you might wind up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together. His writing has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than 20 million books. As they race to find answers, the members of Sigma quickly realize they have become the prey. James Rollins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers. Yet, even these brilliant and seasoned scientific warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening development-or know how to stop it. What has made the biosphere run amok? Is it a natural event? Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it?Ĭommander 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. 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. The environment surrounding them-plants and animals-has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. 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.Ī United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery.

Subterranean by James Rollins