James Rollins · 2023 · thriller

James Rollins's 2023 Sigma Force novel races a geological doomsday across Southeast Asia and the Coral Sea, tying an undersea research station to the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The route runs from Hong Kong through Singapore and Java to Tambora and the deep waters off Australia.

1. 1
   Hong Kong

   The hunt opens in Hong Kong, where a triad thread and a lost military submarine first draw Sigma toward the burning seas of the south.

2. 2
   Singapore

   In Singapore's museums lie clues to a nineteenth-century catastrophe and a strange coral that turns living flesh to stone.

3. 3
   Java

   On Java, records of the 1815 disaster point back to a mountain whose eruption once darkened the whole world.

4. 4
   Mount Tambora

   Sumbawa's Mount Tambora, whose 1815 blast brought the year without a summer, holds the historical key to the cataclysm now unfolding.

5. 5
   The Coral Sea

   Off Australia, the Titan Project probes a thriving deep-sea world of bioluminescent coral, until quakes, tsunamis, and fire herald something vast stirring miles below.