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[Demon Crown] by James Rollins
Sigma Force series Book #13
4.5★
Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers a horror like no other, an island where all life has been eradicated, consumed, and possessed by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks the group, killing them all, save one: an entomologist, an expert on venomous creatures, Professor Ken Matsui from Cornell University. Strangest of all, this inexplicable threat traces back to a terrifying secret buried a century ago beneath the National Mall: a cache of bones preserved in amber. The artifact was hidden away by a cabal of scientists—led by Alexander Graham Bell—to protect humankind. But they dared not destroy it, for the object also holds an astonishing promise for the future: the very secret of life after death.
Yet nothing stays buried forever. An ancient horror— dormant in the marrow of those preserved bones—is free once more, nursed and developed into a weapon of incalculable strength and malignancy, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world.I love the Sigma Force series and have read every one in print. James Rollins is terrific at telling a story. He doesn't mind bending the laws of science to fit his scenario and his vivid imagination blends in some untold history....fact or fiction...or a mixture of both. The results are a unparalleled mystery and adventure. [Demon Crown] is...I believe...his best thus far. I didn't give it the usual 5 stars that his books usually get from me because the start was just drug out too long with all the explanation the story had to have in order to go forward. Stick with it. You won't be disappointed.
