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KINGDOM OF BONES - JAMES ROLLINS TASCHENBUCH

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  historical mystery  and pulse-pounding action. It begins in Africa . . . A United
Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown
force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men  women  and children have been reduced to
a dull  catatonic state. The environment surrounding them?plants and animals?has grown more
cunning and predatory  evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading
from a cursed site in the jungle ? known to locals as the Kingdom of Bones ?and sweeping across
Africa  threatening the rest of the world. What has made the biosphere run amok? Is it a
natural event? 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 . . . sooner than we know. Mother Nature?red in tooth and claw?is
turning against humankind  propelling the entire world into the Kingdom of Bones.

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