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Black Order, James Rollins
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
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- Titel
- Black Order
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- James Rollins
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 560
- ISBN10
- 0752882449
- ISBN13
- 9780752882444
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Abenteuer, Krimi, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Gegenwartsliteratur, Spannung, Action, Spionage
- Beschreibung
- A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.<p>A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin working for clandestine forces that want the affair buried at any cost. Lisa's only ally is a hidden pilgrim, Painter Crowe -- director of SIGMA Force, an elite command of American scientists and Special Forces operatives -- who is already showing signs of the baffling malady that destroyed the minds of the monks.</p><p>Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa -- and a world in jeopardy -- as SIGMA Force races to expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order . . . and alter the destiny of humankind forever.</p><p>Combining the historic scope of <i>The Da Vinci Code</i> with the relentless thrills of today's best action novels, James Rollins's <i>Black Order</i> is a classic adventure -- an ingenious and breathtaking tour de force that explodes with revelations . . . while offering a startling new view of our place in the grand scheme of existence.</p>