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The seventh plague / James Rollins.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780062381682
- ISBN: 0062381687
- Physical Description: xiv, 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2016 November #2
*Starred Review* The vanished leader of a British archaeological expedition appears and then dies before he can reveal where he has been and what has happened. The evidence from the professor's autopsy shows that he was mummified while still alive. Then the medical personnel who worked on his body begin to show signs of a strange disease, and so do the airport employees who handled his coffin. One of the archaeologist's friends contacts the only person she knows who can help: Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. While the two are on a Skype call together, he witnesses a masked man shoot her. The professor, we learn, had been researching the biblical 10 plagues of Egypt, and Crowe and the Sigma Force team are concerned that the plagues are starting again. The intensity never lets up for a second as the narrative unfurls. When it comes to the blending of action, adventure, history, and science, there is no other author who does it better than Rollins. Fans of Clive Cussler, Steve Berry, and Michael Crichton should already have Rollins on their mandatory reading list. Copyright 2016 Booklist Reviews. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 July #1
In this next Sigma Force novel, Commander Grayson Pierce investigates a particularly gruesome murder: when a member of a British archaeological team that's been missing for two years stumbles out of the desert and drops dead, he's already been partly mummified. A mystery involving Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and Henry Morgan Stanley, plus secrets at an engineering complex in the Arctic, provide clues to an ancient scourge now reemerging to threaten humankind.
[Page 55]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2016 October #5
Bestseller Rollins's epic 12th Sigma Force adventure (after The Bone Labyrinth) features exotic locales, heroic quests, quixotic villains, action galore, and enough science and scientific curiosities to titillate even casual readers. Archeologist Harold McCabe, who has been missing for two years, suddenly emerges from the Egyptian desert near death and dies before being able to say where he has been and what has happened. McCabe's body seems to be the source of a deadly pathogen that threatens to cause a pandemic. That thread sends one teamâincluding McCabe's daughter, Jean McCabe; bio-archaeologist Derek Rankin; and Sigma Force's operative named Seichan and Commander Grayson Pierceâto Egypt and Sudan. Meanwhile, Safia al-Maaz, a senior curator at the British Museum, is kidnapped while speaking with Sigma Force director Painter Crowe in Washington, D.C., and Painter follows that line, which leads to the Arctic and a huge installation run by billionaire Simon Hartnell. A Russian assassin, Valya Mikhailov, matches skills and wits with Seichan, while Valya's assassin twin brother, Anton, does likewise with Crowe. Rollins's characters are as large as his landscape in this vast and vastly entertaining thriller saga. Agents: Russ Galen, Scovil Galen Ghost Literary Agency; and Danny Baror, Baror International. (Dec.) Copyright 2016 Publisher Weekly.
