James Rollins · 2008 · thriller

James Rollins's 2008 Sigma Force novel traces a Cold War conspiracy back to the Oracle of Delphi and a bloodline of autistic savants. The route runs from Washington to Delphi, the slums of India and the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl, and on to a secret laboratory in the Ural Mountains.

1. 1
   Washington DC

   Outside the Smithsonian a dying man presses an ancient Greek coin into Gray Pierce's hand, and Sigma is pulled into a Cold War secret.

2. 2
   Delphi

   The coin leads back to the Oracle of Delphi, whose gifted line fled Greece long ago before the Roman sword.

3. 3
   Punjab

   In the slums of India, among the scattered descendants of the oracle's people, the trail of the savant bloodline is picked up again.

4. 4
   Chernobyl

   In the poisoned ruins around Chernobyl, savant children are bred and exploited for a plot to remake the world in radioactive fire.

5. 5
   The Ural Mountains

   In a hidden complex beneath the Urals the conspiracy reaches its head, and the fate of the many rests on the gifted few.