James Rollins · 2014 · thriller

James Rollins's 2014 Sigma Force novel follows a synthetic-biology doomsday from a sterilised California desert to a lost world under the ice. The route runs from Mono Lake to Washington, to the Amazon of Brazil, and down to a subglacial cavern in Antarctica.

1. 1
   Mono Lake, California

   A military station by Mono Lake dies with a final plea to kill them all, as a man-made blight sterilises everything for miles around.

2. 2
   Washington DC

   Sigma is called in, racing to trace the pathogen before the sixth great extinction claims humankind.

3. 3
   The Amazon

   In the tepuis of the Brazilian Amazon, a brilliant madman has built a living laboratory to seed a new and merciless biosphere.

4. 4
   Antarctica

   Beneath the ice of Antarctica, in a hidden cavern once green and teeming, waits the ancient shadow ecosystem that could end our world.