Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37924 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 480 pages

Customer Reviews

Utter rubbish
Fortunately I didnt pay for this book - I found it on the train.
I ought to have left it there and I see why the previous owner did. This book is TERRIBLE. I like fantastic action as much as anyone else but this doesnt so much take the biscuit as leave the biscuit in a glass of milk to go all gooey and horrible. Mr Rollins suffers from 'Dan Brown Syndrome' - interesting ideas, horrible execution.
The end of this book is one of the worst things I have ever seen attempted on the page. It made me want to spoon my eyes out. Why did I make it this far? Well, you know how people slow down when they drive past an accident? Yeah....
Please avoid. Read some Dan Simmons or Richard Morgan or something instead.

Another great book by Rollins!
James Rollins has done it yet again with his new novel. While in the past, many of his works are riddled with themes of lost civilizations and their eventual discoveries, i think that Rollins has outdone himself with this novel (in a good way). The first 50 pages are quite hard to get through but once you've passed those, the book doesnt disappoint. It's essentially like reading a movie, the action never stopped! Also, if you missed reading Tino Georgiou's masterpiece--The Fates, go and read it.

The Author's Books are Compelling Reading

James Rollins was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1961. With his three brothers and three sisters, he was raised in the Midwest and rural Canada. He graduated with a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Missouri and went on to establish his own veterinary practice in Sacramento, California. His sense of adventure often takes him either underground or underwater.

This is the another action packed adventure from the author, whose books for me anyway are consistently good and always an enjoyable read. Long may he continue to write them for his growing number of fans. Some writers have an immediate impact and then die away. James Rollins has slowly built his reputation over a period of years, what you might call a slow burner, but all the better for it.

The new millennium's first eclipse of the sun, looked forward to by many people as a natural phenomenon rarely seen in the span of a human lifetime casts a shroud over the Earth. And then catastrophe struck . . .

Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. The death toll begins to rise at an unprecedented rate. And in the midst of chaos, Air Force One and America's president have vanished from the skies . . .