De serie volgt een team van wetenschappers en voormalige soldaten die proberen de wereld te redden van verschillende bedreigingen. Elke aflevering richt zich op een andere missie die wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen en historische mysteries omvat. Het verhaal combineert actie, spanning en avontuur. Het is een spannende serie vol wendingen en verrassingen.
Verborgen onder de woestijn ligt de legendarische stad Ubar, het immens rijke handelscentrum van het oude Arabië. De locatie is ook een geheimzinnige bron van antimaterie, die krachtig genoeg is om de aarde van energie te voorzien ofte vernietigen... Een expeditie van wetenschappers en Sigma-specialisten trotseert zandstormen om de verdwenen stad binnen te komen. Ze moeten de antimaterie vinden voordat deze in handen valt van Het Gilde, dat er kwaadaardige bedoelingen mee heeft.
Een nachtmis in de Dom van Keulen ontaardt in een bloedbad. De daders verdwijnen spoorloos met hun buit: het relikwie van de bijbelse Wijzen uit het Oosten. De getuigenis van de enige overlevende veroorzaakt opschudding in het Vaticaan. Een kardinaal verzoekt de Romeinse agente Rachel Verona een discreet onderzoek in te stellen. Ook doet hij een beroep op Sigma - een geheime Amerikaanse elite-eenheid. Sigma stuurt een team wetenschappers en militairen onder leiding van Grayson Pierce om de getuigenverklaring te verifiëren. De daders behoren tot een mystieke, geheime broederschap van alchemisten en moordenaars, die de relieken willen gebruiken om de wereld diepgaand te veranderen. Het zijn fanatici die zich door niets en niemand laten tegenhouden. Pierce en Verona worden zowel jager als prooi en moeten alle zeilen bijzetten om te overleven. Het spoor leidt naar een historische locatie waar wetenschap en religie samenkomen...
Het begint met een aanslag op een Deens antiquariaat. Toevallig is commandant Grayson Pierce ter plaatse. Hij weet te voorkomen dat de daders vertrekken met een bijbel die ooit van Darwin was. Deze bijbel werd later eigendom van een wetenschapper die betrokken was bij gruwelijke nazi-experimenten, maar waarom willen terroristen dit boekwerk per se in handen krijgen? In Nepal is een vallei ontvolkt door een mysterieuze ziekte. Schimmige machten dreigen de arts Lisa Cummings, die de zaak onderzoekt, voorgoed het zwijgen op te leggen. Haar enige bondgenoot is Painter Crowe, die aan het hoofd staat van de elite-eenheid Sigma. Maar Painter vertoont de eerste symptomen van de dodelijke ziekte... Grayson heeft de sleutel in handen om Painter en Lisa te redden - als hij zou weten wat er op het spel staat. Sigma zet alles op alles om daar achter te komen. Vóór de huidige wereldorde voorgoed wordt vernietigd...
Sigma Force en hun opponent het Gilde houden een bloedstollende race om een eeuwenoud raadsel op te lossen hetgeen de hele mensheid zal redden of verwoesten.
In Washington, D.C., Commander Gray Pierce witnesses a homeless man's death from an assassin's bullet, leaving behind a bloody coin tied to the Greek Oracle of Delphi. This ancient relic sparks a dangerous pursuit by ruthless hunters, as Gray uncovers a plot rooted in the Cold War that threatens humanity's very foundation. An international think tank, the Jasons, has bioengineered autistic children with savant talents into something far more powerful, aiming to create a world prophet to manipulate for a new era of global peace on their terms. Meanwhile, a man awakens in a hospital, stripped of his memory and trapped in a subterranean research facility. With the help of three extraordinary children, he escapes across a hazardous landscape, pursued by genetically engineered hunters. His mission transcends mere survival; he must thwart a plan to eliminate a quarter of the global population, even if it means sacrificing the very children who aided him. From ancient Greek temples to the slums of India and the toxic ruins of Russia, two men race against time to unravel a mystery linked to the Oracle of Delphi. The lingering question remains: "Will the past be enough to save the future?"
In de middeleeuwen, ten tijde van de kruistochten, stierven op twee plaatsen op de Britse eilanden mensen en dieren massaal een onverklaarbare hongerdood, hoewel hun maag vol zat met onverteerd voedsel. Dit vreemde gegeven is vastgelegd bij een grote volkstelling. In het heden probeert een machtige groep industriëlen een oplossing te vinden voor de dreigende overbevolking met voedselgebrek als gevolg. Men experimenteert met genetische manipulatie van gewassen, met behulp van bio-organismen die teruggrijpen op een ziekte die in de middeleeuwen heeft gewoed. Sigma doorziet als eerste de verbanden en het gehele team wordt ingeschakeld. Hierbij worden ze op de hielen gezeten door uiterst geraffineerde sluipmoordenaars. Gray Pierce volgt de sporen die vanuit de middeleeuwen naar het heden leiden; Painter Crowe doet onderzoek naar de groep industriëlen, die gemanipuleerd blijkt te worden door het Gilde. Er wordt een immens offer gevraagd om de dag des oordeels te kunnen afwenden...
In the Rocky Mountains, a horrible massacre ensues. Bodies are found purposefully positioned to form two symbols. One man recognises the warning behind the gruesome murders: Painter Crowe, director of SIGMA, has seen these symbols before and knows the deaths were a personal threat. One of the victims was his beloved cousin. Crowe joins forces with Commander Grayson Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal that has been manipulating American history. But can he discover the truth before it destroys all he holds dear? The truth lies hidden within the ruins of a cursed lost colony - a place known only as THE DEVIL COLONY.
Bloodline, a breathtaking Sigma Force thriller from the phenomenal James Rollins, is further proof that, when it comes to explosive adventure and nail-biting suspense, this New York Times bestselling author is one of the very best in the business! Bloodline is a lightning-paced, unputdownable international thriller chock-full of the trademark elements that have propelled Rollins to the top of virtually every national bestseller list: cutting-edge science ingeniously blending with history and nonstop action. A relentlessly exciting tale that races across the globe, Bloodline ensnares popular series hero Commander Gray Pierce in a deadly conspiracy involving Somali pirates, the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Vice President, and a dark secret hiding in the human genetic code. This is mystery, suspense, surprise, and ingeniously inventive storytelling as only James Rollins can do it.
In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past. In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy—and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan. Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.
The NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author returns with a gripping, high-concept
adventure thriller in the Sigma Force series - for fans of Dan Brown and
Michael Crichton. A remote military research station in Utah sends out a
frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all!
Personnel from the neighbouring base rush in to discover everyone already dead
- and not just the scientists, but every living thing for 50 square miles has
been annihilated. The land is entirely sterile - and the 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
all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. 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. From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries
buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest
challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind. But is it
already too late
"In the remote mountains of Croatia, an archaeologist makes a strange discovery: a subterranean Catholic chapel, hidden for centuries, holds the bones of a Neanderthal woman. In the same cavern system, elaborate primitive paintings tell the story of an immense battle between tribes of Neanderthals and monstrous shadowy figures. Who is this mysterious enemy depicted in these ancient drawings, and what do the paintings mean? Before any questions can be answered, the investigative team is attacked, while at the same time, a bloody assault is made upon a primate research center outside of Atlanta. The search for the truth will take Commander Gray Pierce of Sigma Force 50,000 years into the past. As he and Sigma trace the evolution of human intelligence to its true source, they will be plunged into a cataclysmic battle for the future of humanity that stretches across the globe ... and beyond. Along the way, revelations involving the lost continent of Atlantis will reveal true mysteries tied to mankind's first steps on the moon. Gray Pierce and his team will face their greatest threat: an ancient evil, resurrected by modern genetic science, strong enough to bring about the end of man's dominance on this planet."-- Back cover
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, 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. Professor McCabe had vanished while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. And when the medical team who performed the man’s autopsy falls ill with an unknown disease, a disturbing question arises. Are those plagues starting again? Seeking answers, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force travel from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to an ancient tomb buried under the sands of the Sudan to a remote Arctic engineering complex housing a mad genius. But time is running out to 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 humankind forever.
In the race to save one of their own, Sigma Force must wrestle with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in this mind-expanding adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, told with his trademark blend of cutting edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action. Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend’s wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak—until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to "unlock" her mind long enough to ask a few questions. What Pierce learns from Kat sets Sigma Force on a frantic quest for answers that are connected to mysteries reaching back to the Spanish Inquisition and to one of the most reviled and blood-soaked books in human history—a Medieval text known as the Malleus Maleficarum, the Hammer of Witches. What they uncover hidden deep in the past will reveal a frightening truth in the present and a future on the brink of annihilation, and force them to confront the ultimate question: What does it mean to have a soul?
"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. If Troy was real, how much of Homer's twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles--the Iliad and the Odyssey--could also be true and awaiting discovery? In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts--tools of war--dating back to the Bronze Age. Inside the captain's cabin is a clockwork gold map with an intricate silver astrolabe embedded in it. Once activated, the moving map traces the path of Odysseus's famous ship as it sailed away from Troy. But the route detours as the map opens to reveal a fiery river leading to a hidden realm underneath the Mediterranean Sea--the subterranean world of Tartarus, the Greek name for Hell. When word of Tartarus spreads, the phantasmagoric horrors found in Homer's tales are all too real--and whoever possesses them can use their awesome power to control the future of humanity. Now, to prevent a tyrant from igniting a global war, Sigma Force must cross the very gates of Hell."--Back cover
In a small Congolese village, a United Nations relief team uncovers a disturbing phenomenon: an unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field, leaving people in a catatonic state while the surrounding flora and fauna evolve rapidly and become increasingly predatory. This unsettling development is emanating from a cursed area known as the Kingdom of Bones, threatening to spread across Africa and beyond. The cause of this biospheric upheaval raises urgent questions: Is it a natural occurrence, or has it been engineered by someone? Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force, seasoned warriors in scientific exploration, are determined to confront this extraordinary challenge, despite the personal sacrifices they have made in their mission to protect the world. As they delve deeper into the mystery, they realize they have become the hunted. To avert a global catastrophe, Sigma Force must uncover a profound secret hidden within the heart of Africa—one that will reveal essential truths about humanity's past and future. With nature turning against humankind, the stakes are higher than ever as the world teeters on the brink of chaos.
