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Thriller · 2014 · PG-13

The Sixth Extinction

by James Rollins

Sigma Force must stop a genetic weapon designed to trigger a mass extinction event.

The NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author returns with a gripping, high-concept adventure thriller in the Sigma Force series - for fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton. A remote military research station in Utah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! By the time help arrives every living thing for fifty miles has been annihilated. And blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and life on Earth balanced on a knife edge. Fol

For14+GenreThrillerLength448 pagesRead time~12 hours

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Violence

Some

Action combat; violence; mass-casualty threat

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

None

No sexual content

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of genetic engineering ethics, extinction, and the thin line between discovery and destruction

What this book is about

The tenth Sigma Force novel (2014) follows Sigma director Painter Crowe and field agent Gray Pierce as they investigate a massacre in California linked to a genetic experiment that could exterminate all life on Earth. Rollins at his science-thriller best. For older teens and adults.

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Mass casualty themes

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