Sunday, June 22, 2008

Black Order by James Rollins



Rating: 5/5

Review: I started out listening to this book on audio cd, but ended up buying it in hardback for a great price at Waldenbooks. Definitely skip on the audio version, as it is much harder to follow, and you lose a bit of the excitement. This book was definitely full of adventure and suspense. I loved all of the main characters, and really cared what happened to them. I certainly plan to read more books in this series. I have discovered a new favorite author in James Rollins.

Book Description: 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.

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