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Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it? Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force are prepared for the extraordinary and have kept the world safe, vigilance for which they have paid a tragic personal price. Yet, even these brilliant and seasoned scientific warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening development—or know how to stop it.

As they race to find answers, the members of Sigma quickly realize they have become the prey. To head off global catastrophe, Sigma Force must risk their lives to uncover the shattering secret at the heart of the African continent—a truth that will illuminate who we are as a species and where we may be headed.

Mother Nature—red in tooth and claw—is turning against humankind, propelling the entire world into the Kingdom of Bones. From 1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, the latest riveting, deeply imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series, told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science Sign In.

Remember Me on This Computer. Need help signing in? Not a Member? Join For Free! We Help Books Succeed. When a cathedral in Cologne is assaulted by a crew using strange technology that leaves all present but one dead, and the take is ancient Magi bones, the Church is, as one might expect, alarmed. Sigma is called in. James Rollins - from wikimedia There is a secret afoot and a highly competitive treasure hunt in which Sigma tries to outpace not only the Dragon Court, a millennia old cult of alchemists and overall bad guys, but their hired team of assassins, the Guild, led by Pierce's personal enemy, the cold-blooded Dragon Lady.

Joining Pierce in his attempts to find out who, what, and where is Rachel Verona, Vatican Caribinieri and niece to a Vatican big-wig. Raoul, the major bad guy is straight out of central casting, lacking only steel braces. There are plenty of sub-mysteries concerning who is on which side in both the Vatican and Sigma, which adds some spice. Of particular value here is the technology, both real and speculative, and the offered history, a definite plus.

Rollins is not the tightest writer in terms of offering reasonable explanations for the twists and turns of the story. Far too often he relies on silliness like "Gray had memorized the layout of the castle.

Another gripe is that the book seems a series of chases and battles with not all that much to connect them for the first pages. That abates a bit, thankfully.

Rollins offers the mandatory climactic thunderstorm, a reasonable quantity of blood and guts, hints of sexual attraction, a bit of perversion, but focuses on the story and keeps it moving at a hectic pace. Good fun. Leave your disbelief on a hanger somewhere. View all 32 comments. I've previously read the first book in the series and several other novels in this genre.

The focus shifts from Painter Crowe to Grayson Pierce now, although Painter does appear in many scenes. Grayson leads a team to prevent the underground Guild from causing more damage around this world; this time, they've blown up a church and killed nearly people while stealing relics that might be the bones of the Magi, mo Map of Bones is the 2nd book in the Sigma Force series written by James Rollins. Grayson leads a team to prevent the underground Guild from causing more damage around this world; this time, they've blown up a church and killed nearly people while stealing relics that might be the bones of the Magi, more commonly known as the Three Wise Men.

Several Vatican personnel and the niece of an important one help Grayson on the case. The plot was a bit wonky for me. When it delves too far into the scientific realm of elements and what can happen to them under different treatments, my mind grows leery, or is it weary?

Of course, this is necessary to create varied suspense and intriguing complexity. But I question There are documented cases of some genius inventions and creations yet when combined with that stroke of luck where a city that's been bombed and fallen under mountains or sea still has a statue with a finger that points the villains or the heroes in the direction of a clue, I struggle!

Then I settle in and enjoy the ride. Which I did for this one, as I have in others. I love learning about history and connecting the dots. As has happened other times, I research things in between chapters. This time, I found myself fascinated by Alexander the Great and the various transfers of power between popes when there were conflicts or an interregnum.

It's intriguing to learn how much has been lost yet grow curious what has been saved. Is the Vatican truly keeping secret documents? Are wealthy men and women holding on to items from 2 millennia ago purely to protect them from wicked people or religious? It's a compelling read from that aspect, and when you toss in a bit of romance, danger, religion, and geography, it can be an addicting read. I tend to love the turncoat characters When she appeared, my focus on the scenes and hidden messages became clearer.

When I thought she died, I was disappointed. I hope she sticks around as a friend or a foe in the future -- no spoilers here, other than she might still be alive in the end. I'm planning to order the third book next month, and I look forward to reading the rest of the series. View all 5 comments. Aug 27, Stephen rated it really liked it Shelves: x-filing-and-secret-histories , ebooks , spy-stuff.

Second in the Sigma Force series after Sandstorm , I can now see that this is going to be a great series. These books are incredibly quick reads with fast, well thought out plots. Even though they are quick reads, don't think there is no detail as James Rollins is a research fanatic and packs the book with a lot of interesting details from which he extrapolates some of the more "fantastic" plot devices.

Think "Tom Clancy" meets "Fringe" with a dash of "Indiana Jones" and you will have a good idea what these books are about. View 2 comments. May 09, Fernando Paredes rated it did not like it. What a terrible, incredibly long dribble this is. Many of the people who've rated this book poorly have pointed out the many failings within it. The entire plot is absolutely ridiculous: You have an implausible group of so-called geniuses who also happen to be -supposedly- super agents, James Bond type of guys.

They put them through "fast track PhD programs" what in the hell is that anyway, who goes through a "fast track" PhD??? This is where we find the first of the book's many cliches, and to me, the first warning sign: The group is called Sigma Force because Delta is already taken as a cliche, I guess Then there's the "bad guys" - cartoonish, Dr. Evil type of bad guys, who are nothing but Yet-Another-Ancient-Secret-Society blah blah blah, yadda yadda, complete with an evil plot to rule the world or something.

I swear, the main bad guy is a mix of the bad guys from the 60's Batman show, Dr. Evil and Disney villains. The author does a feeble attempt of making the reader hate him for his evilness, but I just rolled my eyes every time he acted "evil".

Finally there's this "mysterious white powder" m-state gold , as the author refers to it the whole time, which somehow "the ancients" discovered and used as a superconductor.

They left clues for who? Having the bad guys find this will bring about "armageddon" I kid you not or "remaking the world in their image" - whatever that means. It's all so far fetched and ridiculous that I really couldn't find a reason to wanting the bad guys stopped. In between there's this romance building up between 2 of the characters but the author is so clumsy about it he just builds it up with cheesy phrases and yet more cliches thrown in randomly during the story.

The entire book is plagued by even more cliches, comic book style: Characters, plot, motivation for the villains, situations, the romance, the ending, everything is a cliche. Other absurdities abound: the heroes seem to pack just about everything and anything they might need in their "packs". Two notable examples: At one point the hero is trapped in a room with metal bars in the windows.

He conveniently produces a "portable jack" or something and separates the bars. Another example, he sets up wireless cameras transmitting video to his laptop. There he installs a USB "signal booster" so the video feed can be transmitted elsewhere.

All very convenient to the specific need of the moment. Not to mention that he also carries weapons which he seldom seems to be able to use at all , medical gear etc.

These must be HUGE packs, but they only get mentioned any time the heroes pull another convenient gadget out of them. At another point, they go into a cavern, and he tells their team to turn off the lights to conserve battery. Are they planning on staying down there for days? The heroes obviously not bring down food and water, so why are they worried about batteries at all? In the same chapter, they conveniently bring down 4 six-packs of Coke.

So, again, while they're worried about batteries: I'm thinking they were stupid enough not to bring extra batteries, but hey, let's bring tons of Coke, why don't we!! This was obviously an attempt by the author to get in on the "DaVinci Code bandwagon", along with a scene almost totally ripped off from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" - the author fails terribly and just manages a "me too" story. Cartoonish characters all throughout, implausible premise and cliche packed, tedious plot, boring action scenes makes this an intolerable mess of a book.

First and last James Rollins book I ever read. View all 3 comments. Shelves: action-adventure , favorites , summertime , exploding-helicopters.

This is the first book by James Rollins that I was going to read, then I learned that there was a series, so I read the first book, "Sandstorm", first and then returned to this. You don't really HAVE to read the first two books in any order I think because there is little that is actually spoiled in Map of Bones, most of the previous book is referred to in passing and is more helpful to having a believable world than anything.

Not that the world of Sigma Force is all that believeable, well some This is the first book by James Rollins that I was going to read, then I learned that there was a series, so I read the first book, "Sandstorm", first and then returned to this.

Not that the world of Sigma Force is all that believeable, well some of it is, like most of his books Rollins includes a lot of science in this book and most of it seems to stem from real stuff, but usually it's being used in a strange way or in an unbelieveable way that is more attributed to "action movie logic" than anything sometimes.

Still with all the faults that may exsist for this series one of them is not readability. I love the Sigma Force novels for more than one reason, but the easiest to explain is: They are fun to read.

There's a bit of depth with the science stuff. There's a bit of depth with the history stuff, there's fun action adventure moments and it's actually pretty well written.

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