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To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost—in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world they’ve only known in stories.

Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery - hundreds of mummified bodies - stirs international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts about the bodies’ origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script. During a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly, burned to ashes in a fiery explosion in plain view of television cameras.

Best-selling author James Rollins' action-packed thrillers have been favorably compared to those of Clive Cussler and Dan Brown. During midnight mass, the massive gothic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, is ransacked by armed monks, ancient relics are stolen, and hundreds of people are murdered. The Vatican secretly requests assistance from the U.S. Dept. of Defense Sigma Force. Commander Gray Pierce and his team begin a harrowing race against a heretical gnostic sect seeking to discover the true nature of the missing bones of the magi.

Twenty years ago, a wealthy British financier disappeared near Ubar, the fabled lost city buried beneath the sands of Oman. Now, an expedition of scientists, led by the financier’s daughter, is finally setting off for the legendary metropolis to unlock the desert’s secrets. What they find, however, is more beautiful than they ever dreamed — and far deadlier. Within Ubar is a powerful energy source that could fuel the entire earth above — if it can be harnessed.

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.   

A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team. 

A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany…and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.  

High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown.

A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown, she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact—one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe

A ragged man dies in the arms of Commander Gray Pierce, apparently the victim of an assassination. A bloody coin found in the man’s hand appears to be a stolen relic that dates back to the Oracle at Delphi, and the man turns out to have been a scientist on a secret mission. As Pierce investigates, he uncovers a team of scientists bioengineering savant autistic children in the hopes of creating the next Buddha, Jesus, or Muhammad. While they trust this prophet will be a harbinger of peace, things quickly spin horribly out of control.

Something is amiss on the open waters of the Indian Ocean. When a group of adventurers investigates a luminescent pool of water, they come in contact with a deadly organism risen from the depths. To combat this threat, Sigma Force races across the globe searching for a cure that may be hidden within humanity’s genetic code. But elements of an ancient conspiracy want the plague to spread, and they have a mole entrenched within Sigma Force.

A military research station buried in the remote Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling order: "This is sierra, victor, whiskey. There's been a breach. Failsafe initiated. No matter the outcome: Kill us.... Kill us all."   

A master at combining heart-stopping suspense and scientific intrigue, New York Times best-selling author James Rollins returns with a thrilling adventure like no other--a shocking story of cruel genetic experiments done in the name of national security and, most disturbing of all, tied to a secret history of the Book of Genesis.

Author of numerous New York Times best sellers, James Rollins captivates listeners with his thrilling Sigma Force series. This sixth book features Commander Gray Pierce in a race against time to solve an ancient riddle - one that prophesies the world's destruction. Pierce will have to journey from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway to uncover the Doomsday Key in time.

Ogni mito nasconde un fondo di verità. Ma a volte la verità può uccidere. Roma, 1515. Curiosando tra i manoscritti conservati negli Archivi Vaticani, Leonardo da Vinci s'imbatte in un meraviglioso codice arabo, un trattato d'ingegneria meccanica risalente al IX secolo. Al suo interno, sono contenute una mappa del Mediterraneo e una traduzione dell'XI canto dell'Odissea, in cui si narra la discesa di Ulisse nel Tartaro... Groenlandia, oggi. La missione della squadra di ricerca capitanata dalla dottoressa Elena Cargill è fare luce su una scoperta eccezionale.

Ein uralter Feind der Menschheit kehrt zurück! In Kroatien werden Höhlenmalereien entdeckt, auf denen Menschen gegen riesige schattenhafte Kreaturen kämpfen. Doch bevor sich die Archäologen näher damit beschäftigen können, wird ihr Camp angegriffen. Zeitgleich wird eine Primaten-Forschungsstation in der Nähe von Atlanta überfallen. Die Suche nach den Zusammenhängen führt Commander Grayson Pierce von der Sigma Force 50.000 Jahre in die Vergangenheit und einmal rund um die Erde - bis zu einer uralten Stadt der Toten: dem Knochenlabyrinth!

Das Britische Museum in London wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschüttert. Auslöser für die Detonation war offensichtlich eine mysteriöse Lichtkugel aus reiner Antimaterie!

Ein Brandanschlag im Kölner Dom fordert zahlreiche Opfer. Eiskalt nutzt eine mysteriöse Gruppe bewaffneter Mönche das darauf folgende Chaos, um eine der wichtigsten Reliquien der Christenheit zu rauben: die Gebeine der Heiligen Drei Könige. Für Top-Agent Grayston Pierce und seine SIGMA Force beginnt ein atemberaubender Wettlauf, denn die Reliquie liefert den Schlüssel zu einer neuen Weltordnung.

Das Britische Museum in London wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschüttert. Auslöser für die Detonation war offensichtlich eine mysteriöse Lichtkugel, aus reiner Antimaterie! Für Painter Crowe von der wissenschaftlichen Spezialeinheit SIGMA Force beginnt ein verzweifelter Wettlauf mit der Zeit: Denn wer immer diese unerschöpfliche Energiequelle zuerst in Händen hält, entscheidet über Leben und Tod der gesamten Menschheit!

Eine lebende Mumie, die ägyptischen Plagen und ein uraltes Geheimnis im Wüstensand: Die Sigma Force steht vor ihrer bislang größten Herausforderung. Harold McCabe war ein renommierter Archäologe, bis er unter mysteriösen Umständen starb. McCabe erforschte die zehn biblischen Plagen, und seit seinem Tod häufen sich die Hinweise, dass sich die Geschichte wiederholt. Doch bevor Painter Crowe, Direktor der Sigma Force, nachforschen kann, vernichtet eine Gruppe von geheimnisvollen Attentätern alle Beweise. Was hat McCabe entdeckt? Und wieso hat er in seinen Notizen "Die siebte Plage" hervorgehoben?