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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.

Hot on the heels of his New York Times best-sellers Altar of Eden and Doomsday Key, James Rollins' The Devil Colony finds the members of Sigma Force pitted against a dark cabal that has been pulling the strings of U.S. history since its founding. Bodies arranged in a ritual manner are discovered in an Indian cave, and only Sigma Force director Peter Crowe recognizes them for what they are—a warning portending further violence.

If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened—could they happen again—on a global scale? Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, Professor Harold McCabe comes stumbling out of the sands, but he dies before he can tell his story. Then an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body—while he was still alive. Subsequently, the medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to 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.

The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies. From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in the making strikes out at the heart of America.

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.

The ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter points to a startling cast of suspects: his own students. All are enrolled in a postgraduate program covering the history of witchcraft, folklore, and spiritualism. All evidence points to Sharyn Karr—an American student. Prior to the professor’s death, he had thrust a centuries-old book upon her. It appears to be the handwritten and encrypted diary of an eighteenth-century mystic and occultist, the Comte de Saint-Germain. The professor begged her to keep the text safe, ending with a warning. Trust no one.

Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins's wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks, including a new full-length novella featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog, Kane, as well as nine previously published short stories, gathered together for the first time.

In the dead of night, a faceless enemy hacks into the Smithsonian Institution's network of servers, but it is only the first strike masking a larger attack. To rescue a biologist trapped in the National Museum of Natural History and to discover the true intent behind an assault that grows bolder and bloodier by the minute, Sigma Force must unleash its most headstrong operative - Joe Kowalski - to do what he does best: lay waste to anything between him and his goal.

On a transatlantic flight, the two black sheep of Sigma Force - Seichan and Kowalski - must set aside their mutual dislike as a mysterious fiery force knocks their aircraft out of the sky. This unlikely duo must use every skill, weapon, and bit of ingenuity to survive a night on a remote volcanic island, where their only refuge is the haunted, bat-plagued grounds of a seemingly deserted resort. But something horrific awaits the two, something born of the latest science but rooted in our basest human instincts.

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.

Au cœur de l'Afrique, tandis que des réfugiés climatiques sont frappés d'un mal inconnu qui les réduit à un état végétatif, la faune et la flore sont prises de pulsions meurtrières. Appelés en urgence, le commandant Gray Pierce et son équipe vont découvrir un secret qui pourrait remettre en question le rôle de l'espèce humaine et l'avenir du monde.

Au cours d'une exploration au large de l'Australie, les membres d'une station de recherche internationale découvrent un étrange corail noir qui défie la science. Au même moment, des cataclysmes meurtriers consument l'ensemble de l'Asie du Sud-Est. Pour espérer endiguer ces phénomènes, le commandant Gray Pierce et son équipe doivent partir à la recherche d'une clé enfouie dans le passé, cachée au plus profond de la mythologie aborigène.

Sous la glace de l'Antarctique, au cœur de la Terre, se trouve un incroyable réseau de grottes, un lieu recueillant des merveilles à couper le souffle. Une équipe de spécialistes venus du monde entier et dirigée par la paléoanthropologue Ashley Carter est triée sur le volet pour explorer ces galeries et partir sur les traces d'une civilisation inconnue. Mais ils ignorent qu'ils ne sont pas les premiers à s'y aventurer – et que leurs prédécesseurs n'en sont jamais revenus.

NextPod is a weekly look at North American soccer prospects. Primarily focusing on MLS Next Pro, the Canadian Premier League, USL and NCAA soccer, hosts Duane Rollins and James Grossi are on the hunt for the next stars of MLS and European football. Published each Tuesday.

Grayson Pierce, agente segreto della Sigma - una sezione occulta del dipartimento della Difesa statunitense -, è stato mandato a Copenhagen per seguire un'asta di libri antichi, che pare aver suscitato l'interesse di alcune organizzazioni terroristiche.

Vor Jahrtausenden hat die Erde aufgehört, sich zu drehen. Eine Seite ist nun permanent der Sonne zugewandt, die andere liegt in immerwährender Dunkelheit. Und Nacht für Nacht wird die blinde Nyx von einer schrecklichen Vision heimgesucht: Der Mond stürzt auf die Erde und vernichtet alles Leben. Doch niemand hört auf ihre Warnung, bis der Gelehrte Frell am Königshof sie durch Beobachtungen bestätigt. Er wird zum Tode verurteilt und kann in letzter Sekunde entkommen.

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.

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?

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!