Sigma Force · Book 1
Sandstorm
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 517
- ISBN-13
- 9780060729660
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Sandstorm" (2004, 517 pages) opens the Sigma Force series, introducing Commander Gray Pierce's DARPA-backed unit of special-forces operatives cross-trained as scientists and setting the template James Rollins would repeat across eighteen novels since: pairing a real scientific or historical hook with a globe-spanning conspiracy, grounded in genuine research laid out in the author's closing note.
Its place in Sigma Force
Sandstorm is book 1 in the Sigma Force series. It is followed by Map of Bones. See the full Sigma Force reading order.
Sigma Force is a covert unit of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), staffed by former special-forces operatives cross-trained as scientists and sent to investigate threats where cutting-edge science and ancient mystery collide. Every novel pairs a real scientific or historical hook — CRISPR gene editing, quantum physics, lost expeditions, ancient plagues, cryptozoology, Norse and biblical lore — with a globe-spanning conspiracy, and James Rollins (a veterinarian by training) grounds even…
Editions
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061792731
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