James Rollins

A Sigma Force Novel

The Seventh Plague

Maggie Gordon

The Seventh Plague is Rollins' 12th Sigma Force novel, and if you don't know what you are getting by now, what series are you reading? Each book takes a historical event and blends it with modern science to create some sort of catastrophe that will destroy the world unless our intrepid heroes figure how stop the bad guys and erase the existence of an ancient death bringer. Seriously. That is the plot of every book and I love them! Sure, they are often incredibly silly and based on rather inane scientific extrapolations, but it's like reading an old school Bond film. It's for fun and adventure, not logic and character development. 

The Seventh Plague starts with an archaeologist stumbling out of the desert, bringing an ancient plague back with him. He had been trying to prove that the tale of Moses and the plagues of Egypt actually happened, and, as Sigma Force quickly finds out, it is likely that his theory was correct. Now it is up to Grey, Seichan, and Kolawski to find a cure based on the historical writings of David Livingstone.

But wait! There's more! Up in the Arctic, a billionaire investor is trying to figure out how to stop global warming using some of Telsa's theories about energy production. How does this relate back to the plagues of Egypt? Painter Crowe has to travel to the frozen north in order to find out and stop our evil villain before he destroys the world while trying to save it!

There you go. Lots of crackpot science and historical theories used to create an exciting plot where nothing in the world actually changes. As long as you know that's what you are getting, it's fun! Sure, the characters are pretty cardboard, but it's the thrills, and perhaps more importantly the mysteries that draw you in. In the Sigma Force world, there's still so much unknown about our past and future, and Rollins likes to cultivate a sense of wonder about the strange things that might be lying under our noses. I miss that in a lot of modern media, so I welcome old school adventure stories dressed up with modern technology. Woo!

Love how the science and history are intertwined with the adventure.
One of my favorite authors and series.
Absolutely loved it!!

Jeff Sexton

Erica Darcy

Michael Cowell

Aadam

Xavier Roy

Sahi K

In a breathtaking blend of scientific intrigue and historical mystery, #1 New York Times bestselling mastermind James Rollins reveals an ancient threat hidden within the pages of the Bible, one that threatens the modern world in The Seventh Plague. If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened—could they happen again—on a global scale? Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor’s body—while he was still alive. His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man’s autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to a longtime friend: 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. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises. Are those plagues starting again? Before Director Crowe can investigate, a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. With the professor’s body incinerated, his home firebombed, Sigma Force must turn to the archaeologist’s only daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. While sifting through what’s left of her father’s work, she discovers a puzzling connection tying the current threat to a shocking historical mystery, one involving the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of famous explorer Henry Morgan Stanley. To unravel a secret going back millennia, Director Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce will be thrust to opposite sides of the globe. One will search for the truth, traveling from the plague-ridden streets of Cairo to a vast ancient tomb buried under the burning sands of the Sudan; the other will struggle to stop a mad genius locked within a remote Arctic engineering complex, risking the lives of all those he holds dear. As the global crisis grows ever larger, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science—a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world’s children . . . decimating humankind forever.

Todd Gagne

Jennie Stenhouse

The Seventh Plague A Sigma Force Novel

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