From the devastating moments at the start, as a voracious natural disaster is unleashed, to the globe-trotting race-against-time to find a solution, Rollins keeps the story moving. The novel opens with quite the bang and rarely lets up. And so, I eagerly dove in to The 6th Extinction, hoping for some action-packed mystery and globe-trotting adventure. I fell behind for a bit, though, and recently decided that it was time for me to get caught up. I’ve been a long-time fan of James Rollins’s Sigma Force novels. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will make a shocking discovery involving a prehistoric continent, and a new form of death buried under miles of ice.įrom millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge yet: stopping the coming extinction of mankind. To prevent the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must decipher a threat that rises out of the distant past, a time when Antarctica was green and Earth’s life balanced on a knife edge. The land is completely sterile - and the blight is spreading. When soldiers arrive to investigate, they discover everyone in the lab is dead - not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.

A remote military research station broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling message: Kill us all.

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