num_pages: 510
description: When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma force. For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedral's golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings.Commander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists that dates back to the Middle Ages and seeks to establish a new world order using the mystical bones. Pierce and his team follow a trail that leads from Europe's Gothic cathedrals through the remnants of the seven wonders of the ancient world to a mystical place where science and religion unite to unleash a threat not seen since the beginning of time itself... About The Author: About the Author James Rollins was born in 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his childhood in Canada and the midwest along with his three brothers and three sisters. Rollins attended the University of Missouri, where he received a Ph. D. in veterinary medicine in 1985. After graduation, Rollins moved to Sacramento, California and started his veterinary practice there. His first novel, Subterranean, became a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the Sigma Force novels, Excavation, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow.
language: English
title: Map of Bones
titlecomplete: Map of Bones (Sigma Force, #2)
characters: Gray Pierce, Seichan, Painter Crowe, Monk Kokkalis, Kat Bryant
genres: Fiction, Action, Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 60162
places: Rome, Italy, North Rhine-Westphalia, Vatican City, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
series: Sigma Force
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Thriller
publisher: Orion Fiction