The 6th Extinction
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4.2 • 52 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
In a masterful epic of timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue, James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, takes mankind to its endpoint, to a fate written in rock and ice in an event known as The Sixth Extinction
A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.
The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading.
To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice.
From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.
But is it already too late?
Customer Reviews
Predictable
This is a very smart book. Lots of science. Almost too much at times. Seemed to me at times the writer was trying to flex their brain muscle foregoing the story. Mud book I started considering putting it down as it seemed I’d never arrive at a conclusion. And the hero/villain plot was quite predictable.
Mystery or Fantasy
When this book veered off into fantasy, I lost interest. There are enough conspiracy theories out there and I am maxed out from Covid-19 junk science. Once Rollins asks everyone to come to Antarctica I was done. There are too many excellent crime novels out to keep plugging through this one with it’s junk science.