Black Order
Sigma Force #3
by James Rollins
James Rollins defies imagination in his twists and
turns and making them all come together in a final conclusive story.
This is not my favorite way of reading a novel and I had a hard
time with it, because of the many jumps in location and changes
of characters, however I did really enjoy the book as a whole and
especially the story underneath. But it took me a while to get back
into this book each time I had to put it down to live my life and
go to work, and catching up is not my favorite part or pastime of
reading. After about the first ten chapters, I was able to figure
out where I was before I had to put the book down, and then it was
enjoyable reading with a lot of action and the confusion was less
than in the beginning of the book. Of course, I am an older, not
yet retired person, who has lots of thing going on in my life, so
sitting down to read a book from cover to cover is not generally
a possibility for me, and that may be where I had trouble with this
one, because it is a very long book, coming in at over 508 pages,
I just didn't have the time necessary to read it all at once. It
took lots of brainpower to unravel this story line and keep up with
it, so now on to the story……
Sigma Force Commander Grayson Pierce is in Copenhagen
looking at a particular rare and historical book, not knowing what
it contains or why it is being bid on by ruthless killers and experimenters,
who are descendants of Himmler and the studies of genetics and evolution
during WWII in the search for the perfect Aryan Race. Was Intelligent
Design a coming thing during the last days of WWII or is it even
possible that evolution and Darwin were correct and God has nothing
to do with it at all?
Lisa Cummings is an American Doctor who is on Mount
Everest doing a climb when she is whisked away to a remote Monastery
in Nepal to be witness and physician to an assault and murder of
a whole monastery of people tucked away in the mountains by an out
of control group of scientists located in a kind of cave like Shangri-La
at a nearby mountain. She is almost one of the victims by the people
of the monastery, who have become violent killers because of a malady
brought on by a radiation like event that came from the scientific
experiments that took place in the cave where they ultimately end
up, only to try to help those people who are trying to kill them,
try to survive to finish the experiments and come to conclusions
that may or may not be possible.
There is much, much more to the story and to go
into details would spoil and give away many of the events that come
up. Suffice to say that people who love a great story, the likes
of Cussler, Dan Brown or Ludlum, will love this book that deals
with quantum life and Intelligent Design vs. the Big Bang theory
and the creating of monsters of unspeakable types through that same
Intelligent Design that was possibly being worked on during WWII
and brought forward to conclusions that are not very pretty. It
is a fascinating book and hard to put down but not an easy read
by any means. Just be prepared to go into it with a pen and note
pad so that you can jot down the main characters and story line
before you stop reading for the day. Darwin 's family Bible plays
an important part as well as the notations of Runes and symbols
of the Druids. All in all, a gripping, well written, fast paced
story that I totally recommend. Black Order is a must
read if you love the historically possible. There really could be
a horrible Black Order with an agenda that would change
forever our world.
Rollins
is an upcoming force to be reckoned with in the writing world. This
book would be an excellent movie and I am sure that there are thoughts
about this in the works right now, even as I write this review.
Dive into the book, you won't be disappointed at all. I wasn't.
Reviews
of other titles in this series
Sandstorm
#1
Map
of Bones #2
Black
Order, #3
The
Judas Strain, #4
The
Last Oracle, #5
The
Doomsday Key, #6
The
Devil Colony , #7
Bloodline, #8 [review
1] [review
2]
The Eye
of God #9
The
Sixth Extinction #10
Seventh
Plague #11
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The
Book |
Harper |
May 29, 2007 |
Mass Market Paperback |
0060765372
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Spy Thriller |
Amazon.com |
The
Reviewer |
Claudia
Turner VanLydegraf |
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