![]() ![]() They’re where authors can connect with readers, where we discover new writers, where children get hooked on the thrill of reading that can last a lifetime. ![]() ![]() We believe that bookstores are essential to a healthy culture. Action/adventure fans unfamiliar with Rollins' work should be emphatically urged to read this series.īookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. The books' style perfectly matches their subject matter, and it's impossible not to be swept up by their energy and excitement. But this is not a criticism, at least not completely. The novels are like prose versions of comic books, or lightly fleshed out movie treatments. ![]() After a handful of Sigma Force novels, Rollins has fine-tuned the formula to precision: characters rendered in broad strokes, punchy dialogue, short paragraphs that propel us headlong through the story. This time the group's mission involves a devastating bacteriological plague, a mysterious cryptogram that may predate humanity, and the deadly truth about what happened after Marco Polo's expedition to China. Sigma Force, made up of former Special Forces officers trained as experts in various scientific fields ("killer scientists," one of their number calls them), scours the world for technologies that could help or threaten the U.S. The crack, ultrasecret Sigma Force team returns in another adventure that, as usual, unfolds at breakneck speed. ![]()
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