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James Rollins · 2024 · thriller

James Rollins's 2024 Sigma Force novel chases a tsarist-era secret across the top of the world, from a murder near the Kremlin to a legendary lost continent beneath the Arctic ice. The route runs from Washington to Moscow, north to Arkhangelsk, and out over the polar sea.

  1. 1
    Washington DC

    With Sigma's Smithsonian headquarters under siege, Gray Pierce is drawn into a conspiracy three centuries old, born in the era of the Russian tsars.

  2. 2
    Moscow

    A Vatican archivist is murdered in the shadow of the Kremlin, but not before sending a coded warning tied to the vanished Golden Library of the tsars.

  3. 3
    Arkhangelsk

    The trail leads north to Arkhangelsk on the White Sea, gateway to a thawing Arctic where nations race to claim newly bared land.

  4. 4
    Hyperborea

    Far across the polar ice waits the truth behind Hyperborea, the blessed northern continent of ancient legend, and a discovery that could ignite a global war.

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