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.
