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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Sept 13 2009: This is the first James Rollins book I have ever read and I like it alot. This means that I have found a new author to read. It has a fun mix of history (Marco Polo), a covert agency, pirates, cannibals, strong women, religious connections, a hunt for clues, a pandemic, and much more. I think this book has a bit of everything for everyone. (  )1   LittleRed1966 | Sep 13, 2009 |  Although it took a real stretch of the imagination to make the plot of the novel even half believeable I enjoyed reading it nonetheless. Rollins' Sigma Force characters are real 'boys own' heroes believing in truth, justice and the American Dream as they romp around the world trying to save us all from ungodly disasters - in this instalment a virus, the eponymous Judas Strain, threatening to wipe out life as we know it. The exotic locations, Christmas Island and Angkor are richly described and it's hard not to have been swept up by the adventure as the story nears it's climax. ( ) cathymoore | Jul 5, 2009 | Fast, adventure packed, great summer beach read ( ) KC9333 | Jun 6, 2009 | I suspect we all guiltily enjoy things we know we probably shouldn’t. Just as knowing how good Belgian chocolates are (and having reasonably ready access to them) doesn’t stop me popping out for a Mars bar every once in a while, an awareness of how much better so many other authors are doesn't stop me, every once in a while, picking up one of James Rollins' books. For full review please see http://southlondonbook.blogspot.com/2... isynge | Feb 24, 2009 | Terrible book. Too many coincidences for my taste, characters overdrawn, almost every chapter ends with someone or another about to die - and then you wait several chapters before those characters reappear. And what do you know, they are safe again. A real potboiler as they used to say. (  ) WhitmelB | Jan 9, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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ju·das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction
A master at combining historical and scientific intrigue with cutting-edge adventure, New York Times bestselling author of Map of Bones and Black Order James Rollins returns with his most relentless, high-octane thriller to date—a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world . . . and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels.
From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind—a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow.
Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis—operatives of the shadowy covert organization SIGMA Force—search for answers to the bizarre affliction that has inexplicably washed ashore. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.
At a Fourth of July celebration a world away, SIGMA's commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful assassin—a would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. With the fate of every man, woman, and child on Earth hanging in the balance, Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest—one that winds through Venetian tombs, Byzantine cathedrals, and jungle-encrusted ruins—following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo.
But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. And as a relentless madman dogs their every step, Pierce and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one—not the bewitching enigma who runs at his side or even those who are closest to him—for any one of them could be . . . a Judas.
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