In a masterful epic of timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue, New York Times
bestselling author James Rollins takes mankind to its endpoint, to a
fate written in rock and ice in an event known as The Sixth Extinction.
A remote military research station broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling message: Kill us all.
When soldiers arrive to investigate, they discover everyone in the lab
is dead—not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square
miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.
The land is completely sterile—and the blight is spreading.
To prevent the inevitable,
Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must decipher a threat that rises out of
the distant past, a time when Antarctica was green and Earth’s life
balanced on a knife edge. Following clues from an ancient map rescued
from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will make a shocking
discovery involving a prehistoric continent, and a new form of death
buried under miles of ice.
From millennia-old secrets out of
the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of
today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge yet: stopping the coming
extinction of mankind.
But is it already too late?