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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Considering it took me a month to read, that should tell you something: I wasn't driven to finish. The science was convoluted, the pacing rather slow, and the characters weren't all that likable. This is the 2nd, and last, Rollins book I plan to read. I felt the same about the other one (Map of Bones). After seeing that many people who read Matthew Reilly liked Rollins' work, I was excited to try him. But since I didn't like either book, I'll not attempt reading him again. (  ) Jarratt | Apr 23, 2009 |  Good book may have liked it better if I understood more of the science involved. (  ) blais1129 | Jul 14, 2008 | Was ok,, how many times does someone have to be shot at by professional assassins to be actually killed. Over the top on the shooting scenes and characters were rather aggrevating. ( ) chuckt12345 | Feb 11, 2008 | Acção sem parar (  ) petess | Jan 31, 2008 | As with all Rollins Sigma Force novels, Black Order mixes thriller action with science just over the border of what's real. As a physicist, I liked the touch of science involved. Just don't take it too seriously - this is definitely finction. Rollins includes an afterward with his sources - turns out I had already read one of them, Himmler's Crusade, that talks about Nazi activities in the Himalayas during the 1930s. That one's highly recommended too. Many of the characters here are carried over from previous Sigma Force books, and it's fun to see how things go with the continuing characters. Someone new to the series can read this book out of order without missing much, but reading the previous books will add a little richness. The plot is Rollins' usual tight, action-packed story. If you like this sort of book (and I do!) this will be a satisfying read. ( ) drneutron | Jan 14, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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In Copenhagen . . . a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents—and into a terrifying mystery surrounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.
In the mountains of Nepal . . . in a remote monastery, Buddhist monks inexplicably turn to cannibalism and torture—while Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, begins to show signs of the same baffling, mind-destroying malady . . . and Lisa Cummings, a dedicated American doctor, becomes the target of a brutal clandestine assassin.
Now only Gray Pierce and Sigma Force can save a world suddenly in terrible jeopardy. Because a new order is on the rise—an annihilating nightmare growing at the heart of the greatest mystery of all: the origin of life.
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400)
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