02180cam a2200301 i 4500 333423098 TxAuBib 20171121120000.0 171005s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017042084 9780062381736 28.99 0062381733 28.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Rollins, James, 1961- The demon crown [BOOK] : a Sigma Force novel / James Rollins. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Sigma Force ; 13 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. To stop its spread, Commander Grayson Pierce of Sigma Force must survive a direct attack on the island of Maui. 20171207. Special forces (Military science) Fiction. Biological weapons Fiction. Special operations (Military science) Fiction. Sigma Force ; 13.