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Fiction · 2017 · PG-13

The Seventh Plague

by James Rollins

Sigma Force confronts a mummified body carrying a Biblical plague with modern consequences

Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive. His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease, one that is quickly spreading throug

For14+GenreFictionLength432 pagesRead time~11.5 hours

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Violence

A lot

Action combat; deaths from plague; dangerous operations

Language

Some

Moderate profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

Brief sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

Moderate alcohol use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Weaponized plague with Biblical connections; mass casualty potential

What this book is about

The 12th Sigma Force novel by James Rollins (2016) in which an explorer staggers out of the Sudan after two years missing, his body covered in strange hieroglyphics — and within days he's dead of a mysterious illness that resembles ancient Egyptian plagues. Gray Pierce and Sigma Force investigate connections to the Biblical Exodus and a microorganism that could be weaponized.

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Plague and bioweapon threat

Action violence

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