Sigma Force
William Morrow
December 2016
On Sale: December 13, 2016
448 pages ISBN: 0062381687 EAN: 9780062381682 Kindle: B01D8K63NG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.