In a breathtaking blend of scientific intrigue and historical mystery, #1 New York Times bestselling mastermind, James Rollins, reveals an ancient threat hidden within the pages of the Bible, one that threatens the modern world in
The Seventh Plague
If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened–could they happen again–on a global scale?
Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor’s body–while he was still alive.
His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man’s autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. The call is urgent, for Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises.
Are those plagues starting again?
Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor’s body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist’s only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what’s left of her father’s work, she discovers a puzzling connection, tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer, Henry Morgan Stanley.
To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear.
As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science–a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world’s children . . . decimating mankind forever.An Amazon Best Book of December 2016: What impresses me every single time I read one of James Rollins’s Sigma Force adventure novels is how many myths, puzzles, and scientific theories he manages to stuff into one book. Think of a Michael Crichton novel but on steroids and with a zippy joie de vivre. (I like to imagine Rollins sitting behind his keyboard and thinking, “But what if I added this crazy thing…” And then doing it, no matter how over-the-top the action will get.) Director Painter Crowe, operative Gray Pierce, former assassin Seichan, and the other members of Sigma Force (a secret group under DARPA) have tackled many strange things in the past, but the biblical plagues of Exodus is a new challenge for them—and one that now threatens the entire world through an unstoppable virus. Contagion theory, Nikola Tesla, living mummification, and more all coalesce into a globe-spanning race to save humanity before an ancient disease wipes out everyone through genetic modification. Those who have read Sigma novels before will enjoy this latest installment in which Rollins put his team through their paces in the desert, the jungle, and the northern icy wastelands of Canada as they track down clues left thousands of years ago on how to stop the oncoming plague. Those who are new to Sigma will catch up easily as they strap themselves in for a twisty, plunging thrill ride. –Adrian Liang, The Amazon Book Review