James Rollins · 2006 · thriller

James Rollins's 2006 Sigma Force novel follows a hunt across four continents into the buried science of the Nazi Reich and the mystery of the origin of life. The route runs from Sigma's base to Copenhagen, the SS castle of Wewelsburg and a hidden lab in Poland, and on to a Himalayan monastery and a final reckoning in South Africa.

1. 1
   Washington DC

   From Sigma's command the team scatters across four continents to trace a terror rooted in the science of the Nazi Reich.

2. 2
   Copenhagen

   In Copenhagen a bookshop burns and a Bible once owned by Charles Darwin is stolen, drawing Gray Pierce into a century-old conspiracy.

3. 3
   Wewelsburg

   At the SS castle of Wewelsburg the runes of Himmler's occult science point the way east.

4. 4
   Owl Mountains

   In a hollowed-out mountain in Poland lies the abandoned laboratory of the Bell, where the Reich pushed the boundaries of life itself.

5. 5
   The Himalayas

   High in the Himalayas a Nepalese monastery is struck by a madness that drives gentle monks to slaughter, and the heirs of Himmler's researchers work on.

6. 6
   Zululand

   On a South African estate the black order prepares to loose its evolutionary nightmare upon the world, and Sigma races to the final reckoning.