Black order: a sigma force novel - james rollins

In Copenhagen .

a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents--and into a terrifying mystery sur-rounding 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.