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Egitto, 1324 a.C. Il nemico è alle porte. Arriva dalle stesse terre da cui il suo popolo era scappato, per sfuggire alle piaghe e a un faraone assetato di vendetta. Ora la sacerdotessa ha una sola preoccupazione: assicurarsi che nessuno scopra il dono che la sua gente ha ricevuto da Dio, una benedizione nascosta nel cuore di una maledizione…
Londra, 1895. Un amuleto, portato dall'Africa, che si dice contenga le acque del Nilo tramutate in sangue dalla furia del Signore. Gli indigeni non hanno mai osato toccarlo, convinti che quell’oggetto fosse portatore di sventura. Ma gli scienziati della Royal Society non temono simili superstizioni e lo aprono. Nel giro di pochi giorni muoiono tutti fra atroci sofferenze…
Il Cairo, oggi. Nel deserto del Sudan viene rinvenuto il corpo di Harold McCabe, archeologo scomparso due anni prima. Durante l’autopsia, i medici si accorgono che l’uomo è stato mummificato ancora vivo e che il suo cervello emette uno strano bagliore rosato. Dopo poche ore, tutto il personale entrato in contatto con McCabe cade vittima di una misteriosa malattia. Per contenere il contagio, le autorità chiedono aiuto a Painter Crowe. Il direttore della Sigma Force e Grayson Pierce si recano immediatamente sul posto, senza sapere che è iniziata la caccia a un segreto tanto antico quanto pericoloso, che rischia di decimare la popolazione mondiale. Dall’Egitto al Circolo Polare Artico, dall’Inghilterra al Ruanda, Painter e i suoi uomini saranno coinvolti in una corsa contro il tempo per fermare una catastrofe di proporzioni bibliche…
- ISBN: 8850251963
- Casa Editrice: TEA
- Pagine: 448
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Mr. Rollins did it again, The Seventh Plague shines with great action, mysteries and suspense which draw in from the very first page. I think, that’s the main key why the series is loved, especially by me :) My reading joy was lessened by the sad loss and that’s why I had some struggle. Characters: Leggi tutto
The Seventh Plague is the 12th book in the Sigma Force series and Painter Crowe, Grey Pierce, Seichan, and Kowalski, etc. are back trying to save the world from a deadly threat. This time it seems that they deadly plagues from the Bible could happen again. This book did not have intense and wonderfu Leggi tutto
I've read all the Sigma Force novels and I have to say they have started to be very repetitive. I was barely about to get passed the mythical & scientific inaccuracies (unfortunately these types of books are always full of them). Also some of the action was really out-landish, but again I could make Leggi tutto
Just couldn't take the clichés anymore, this book failed to generate a "willing suspension of disbelief". I had read it 100 times before and seemed to hit every cliché for these types of books, the race to solve things, the astonishing ease where the team resolve thousand year old mysteries, the bad Leggi tutto
Before you start reading this book. Please read the below information. 1) On Sept. 7 the Daldykan River near the city of Norilsk had turned the color of blood, with locals pointing fingers at the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, owned by the company Norilsk Nickel. In fact, a broken pipeline at t Leggi tutto
Not Rollin's best effort. The Sigma force are their usual selves but the plot is just too unbelievable even for fiction. And, as usual, most of the characters are comic book supermen/superwomen. All have doctorates and some world class skill. Too much of everything. This one volume is enough of Mr.
If you’re going to read Rollins, read the earlier stuff. You can see in this instalment how all the crazy shit that makes these books so fun has been fading away book by book.
I find it hard to believe that GR has a rating above 4 for this one. Seventh Plague was a weak effort. A Professor is found by nomads wandering in the desert, having attempted self-mummification. He dies, and then a nasty contagion is released during his autopsy. Painter Crowe and Kat head to the Ar Leggi tutto
The Sigma Force novels have been a guilty pleasure for me. I don’t normally read military thrillers, where the bad guys are irredeemably eeeeeeevil and the good guys are effectively invincible. But the Sigma Force novels usually do a nice job of blending the action sequences with interesting history Leggi tutto
My first experience with a James Rollins novel is a good one. Although I didn’t love this, I would still read another of his novels. I love story concepts with plagues, but this was a slow moving thriller. I noticed that long-time James Rollins fans don’t consider this his best work, so if you’re on Leggi tutto
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