Kingdom of bones: a thriller / James Rollins.
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- ISBN: 9780062893000
- Physical Description: xvii, 679 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Harper Large Print edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Harper large Print, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Special operations (Military science) > Fiction. Jungles > Africa > Fiction. Africa > Fiction. large type books. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Louise Public Library.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2022 February #2
In the new Sigma Force thriller, Commander Gray Pierce and his team of globetrotting problem-solvers run up against something they aren't sure how to handle. In a part of the Congo, the environment seems to have been altered. Flora and fauna are apparently undergoing some sort of accelerated evolution; at the same time, the people there seem to have taken several steps backwards on the evolutionary ladder, making them unresponsive and virtually immobile. Is it possible someone has intentionally caused these catastrophic events? And, if so, why? As usual, the answer lies deep in the past, and Sigma Force is running out of time to solve the ancient mystery. The Sigma Force novels (this is the sixteenth) are muscular, dynamic action-adventures. But this doesn't mean they skimp on character: Rollins knows just when to slow things down and let us get to know the players. He's very good at this sort of thing, and his fans will surely be lining up for this one. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2022 April #1
A plague threatens to burst from the Congolese jungle and infect the world in the latest bloodcurdling adventure in the Sigma Force series. "Stay away. Dear God, don't come out here": That's the warning ignored by Sigma Force's Tucker Wayne and his faithful soldier dog, Kane. Near Kisangani, "the literal heart of Africa," a fearful contagion runs amok. Scientists and locals suffer attacks from crazed ants, bats, and myriad other jungle fauna. Some of the populace becomes nearly catatonicâwhat's going on? The answer appears to be viruses, those half-living creatures said to outnumber all the stars in the universe. An infected moth lands on skin with bloodcurdling effect. Baboons go crazy and tear people apart. Ants develop spikes, as though their mandibles aren't enough for ripping into flesh. The normally cranky hippos are even crankier. And "the deeper we go, the worse it will get." The evil mining CEO Nolan De Coster loves all of thisâhe wants a massive pandemic in which he can become the savior, but he's not all the good guys have to worry about. Even the flora fight them. They encounter intelligent fungi and angry trees as they get closer and closer to Mfupa Ufalme, the accursed Kingdom of Bones. Thriller readers love ticking clocks, and this yarn has several, like the timer on the mother of all bombs that is going to explode any minute now. The story is a well-mixed blend of action, science, and occasionally over-the-top imagination. That bats are "furry sacks of viruses" is an easy sellâjudgmental trees, not so much. Readers will like the characters, especially the brave Kane and Benjamin Frey, the biologist with an eidetic memory and mild Asperger's. This excursion into the depths of Africa is more enjoyable than Conrad's Heart of Darkness, although it gets a little gross in spots. This one's fast-moving fun. Copyright Kirkus 2022 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2020 October
The prequel to Downing's World War II Berlin-set "Station" series,
Copyright 2020 Library Journal.Wedding Station introduces John Russell, an English crime reporter at a Berlin newspaper whose grim tales of everyday mayhem are increasingly swallowed by the darkness descending upon Germany under new chancellor Hitler. Graham's latest stand-alone,Danger in Numbers , a state police agent links arms with an FBI specialist on cults to solve a ritualistic murder in small-town northern Florida (125,000-copy first printing). In Kayode'sLightseekers , Nigerian investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo travels to a remote town in his country's south to probe the public torture and murder of three university students in what he comes to realize is a lot more than a moment of crowd madness. In her #ownvoices debut, London-based criminal attorney Matheson, of the City University Crime Writing competition, sets DI Anjelica Henley the unenviable task of stopping a criminal imitatingThe Jigsaw Man before the real hack-up-his-victims killer gets the copycat himself (100,000-copy first printing). InThe Red Book , from Patterson and Illinois justice/Edgar Award winner Ellis (Line of Vision ), Det. Bill Harney of the Chicago PD's Special Operations Section is fresh on the job and walking the finest of lines when the turmoil surrounding a drive-by shooting turns political (520,000-copy first printing). In Rollins'sKingdom of Bones , Sigma Force faces huge swaths of Africa where the populace has turned quiescent even as plants and animals become cunningly fierce; has the biosphere run amok or is fiendish engineering involved (250,000-copy first printing)? - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2021 November
Baldacci sends private investigator and ex-World War II veteran Aloysius Archer to Los Angelesâthat is,
Copyright 2021 Library Journal.Dream Town âfor another dangerous case (one million copy first printing). Having crafted two Sam and Remi Fargo adventures with the late Cussler (Pirate andThe Romanov Ransom ), former California law enforcement officer Burcell takes the daring duo on another far-flung adventure inClive Cussler's The Serpent's Eye (originally scheduled for Sept. 2021). In theNew York Times best-selling Fisher'sAn Honest Lie , Rainy has been hiding out from her bad-news past atop a remote, fog-cloaked mountain but decides to risk a trip to Las Vegas with some friends, where one of them is trapped by a killer as bait to lure Rainy (10,000-copy hardcover and 200,000-copy paperback first printing). OneCrimson Summer , thanks to mega-best-selling Graham, Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Amy Larson is sent a toy red horseâa sign that she and FBI agent Hunter Forrestdidn't wipe out the Doomsday cult that's about to fight a bloody turf war in northern Florida with several South American cartels (75,000-copy first printing). In best-sellingSecrets of Midwives author Hepworth's latest, Tully and Rachel have every reason to resentThe Younger Wife who's coming on the scene; their father is still married to their mother, now in a care facility for dementia, but plans to divorce herâwhich leads to the spilling of numerous toxic secrets (250,000-copy first printing). In the latest from theNew York Times best-selling Pinborough, has-it-all heroine Emma Averell is beginning to suffer fromInsomnia , which she fears may presage a descent into the insanity that destroyed her own mother's life (75,000-copy first printing). In the best-selling, award-winning Reich'sOnce a Thief , Simon Riske must prove that the Ferrari he's restored and sold for nine figures is not a fake, which brings him in contact with Anna Bildt, whose Swiss banker father has been blown up by a car bomb (75,000-copy first printing). In Rollins'sKingdom of Bones , postponed from March and September 2021, humans have become dullards while flora and fauna are suddenly ascendant; perhaps evolutionary forces have spun out of control, but it could be some fiendish plan (250,000-copy first printing). Letty Davenport, the smart, stubborn daughter of Sandford standby Lucas Davenport, becomesThe Investigator , sent by her U.S. senator boss to figure out who's profiting from the theft of Texas crude oilâand why. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2022 February #1
Bestseller Rollins's exhilarating 16th Sigma Force novel (after 2020's
Copyright 2022 Publishers Weekly.The Last Odyssey ) takes a Sigma Force team, including former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne, to a UN refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been overwhelmed by a simultaneous invasion of unusually violent insects and animals and an outbreak of a mysterious and devastating sickness. Their mission, which is to identify and combat what officials fear could be another worldwide pandemic, becomes a literal rescue as the camp is attacked by corrupt Congolese forces at the behest of an industrial-mining billionaire with a sinister agenda. Wayne and the other Sigma team members must travel deep into the primeval jungle in search of the Kingdom of Bones, a fabled ancient Shangri-La that might provide the cure to the disease, if they can survive the deadly mutating flora and fauna. Rollins, a former veterinarian, excels in description of animal taxonomy, both real and of his own invention. Fans of Clive Cussler and Michael Crichton won't want to miss this one.Agents: Russ Galen, Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency; and Danny Baror, Baror International. (Apr.)