num_pages: 608
description:  In a masterful epic of timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes mankind to its endpoint to a fate written in rock and ice in an event known as The Sixth Extinction.A remote military research station broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling message: Kill us all. When soldiers arrive to investigate they discover everyone in the lab is deadnot just the scientists but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal plant and insect even bacteria. The land is completely sterileand the blight is spreading.To prevent the inevitable Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must decipher a threat that rises out of the distant past a time when Antarctica was green and Earths life balanced on a knife edge. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria Sigma will make a shocking discovery involving a prehistoric continent and a new form of death buried under miles of ice.From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today Sigma will face its greatest challenge yet: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.But is it already too late?
language: English
title: The 6th Extinction
publisher: William Morrow