প্রথম ২০০ পেজ পড়ার সময় মোটেই প্রেডিক্ট করা সম্ভব ছিলনা পরবর্তী ২০০ পেজ এমন ব্লাস্টিং হতে পারে। রোলিন্স এর বই পড়তে পড়তে অভ্যাস হয়ে যাওয়ার কথা, তারপরও সারপ্রাইজড হই লেখে কিভাবে! যায় হোক, সিগমা ফোর্স এর সাথে আরেকটা অসাধারণ জার্নি।

Earlier this year, I began reading the Sigma Force series written by James Rollins. I recall enjoying one of his books over a decade ago, but I couldn't remember which one... even though I wrote reviews on most of my past reads when I joined Goodreads, I didn't want to throw something out there when I barely recalled it. I also vividly recall seeing one of his stand-alone novels, Amazonia, in the airports when I was traveling a lot more last decade. That said, I've just finished the fourth book ...

"Why the bubonic plague suddenly arose out of China's Gobi desert during the middle ages and slew a third of the world's population remains unknown. In fact, no one knows why so many plagues and influenza of the last century - SARS, the Avian flu- have arisen out of Asia. But what is known with fair certainty: the next great pandemic will arise again out of the East. - US Centers for Disease control and prevention, May 2006" - This quote in the beginning of the book, was so eerily apropos, now t...

বইটা পড়ার আগেও জেমস রোলিন্সের বড় ভক্ত ছিলাম। এখন শেষ করার পর বলতে হবে যে মুগ্ধতা আরো বেড়েছে ওনার ওপর। তার বইগুলোয় সবচেয়ে বেশী যে ব্যাপারটা টানে আমাকে তা হল ফ্যাক্ট এবং ফিকশনের মিলবন্ধন। দুটোকে এমনভাবে মেশান তিনি যে কিছুক্ষণ পরপরই চোয়াল আপনা আপনি খুলে যায়। প্রতিটা বই থেকেই নতুন নতুন অনেক জিনিস জানতে পারি(কিছুদিন পরেই অবশ্য সব বেমালুম ভুলে যাই :3 )। এই বইয়েও তার ব্যতিক্রম ঘটেনি। ইতিহাস আর অণুজীববিজ্ঞানের অদ্ভুত মিশ্রণ ঘটিয়েছেন রোলিন্স। তবে আমার একটু বেশীই ভালো লেগেছে, তার কারণও আছে অবশ্য...

Marco Polo’s 2 year journey in 1292 from China is described in this novel. It is mysteriously eerie and puzzling but also intriguing and compelling. He starts out with 14 ships and over 600 warriors, only to be wiped out by a mysterious plague that wipes out all but 18 men including himself, and a betrothed princess bound for Persia. There is talk of ‘angels’ and a ‘map’, cannibals and pirates. This secret must be kept hidden at all costs but what is it? Christmas Island - centuries laterA husba...

AN ANCIENT, PANDEMIC CAUSING, VIRUS whose origin and cure is linked to the ANGKOR WAT and the mysterious return voyage of MARCO POLO from the court of KUBLAI KHAN...yep, it looks like another job for SIGMA FORCE .The SIGMA Force is one of the truly delicious concepts to be introduced into the popcorn-eating, page-turning, actiony, spy-guy, thrill-o-rama genre. PhD toting scientific brainiacs with Navy Seal kill skills and James Bond spy craft (minus babes and booze…damn). SIGMA is a covert ops t...

The Sigma Force is back in action. (see Map of Bones). A deadly microbe has turned parts of the ocean into a toxic, flesh eating monster. What the hell is going on? Gray Pierce and the other fun folks of the Sigma Force team up with the evil Seichan to try to keep their nemesis, the Guild, from using this biological threat as a new form of bio-weapon. The action takes place with Grey and Seichan in one group and Lisa Cummings and Monk in the other, focused in the Indonesian Islands, where this t...

James Rollins' novels generally remind me of some weird combination of Michael Crichton, Dan Brown, and Tom Clancy -- none of whom are among my favorite authors. Rollins is, though -- I love the combination of myth/legend, science, and intrigue. The Judas Strain starts with a viral outbreak, follows Marco Polo to Cambodia (via an ancient manuscript), and has the SIGMA team tracking terrorists on three continents. If that sounds far-fetched, it's only because you haven't read it. Rollins nearly a...

I'm a little bit embarrassed to give this book a 4, but there you go. It's a guilty pleasure, I guess, because the book is kind of ridiculous in a testosterone-fueled Indiana-Jones-meets-Mission-Impossible kind of way. If this tells you anything, I nearly downgraded it to a 3 because of the cannibals. (Yes, cannibals.)I was about 60 pages into the book before I realized that it was part of a series. Some of you know that reading a series out of order is one of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES EVER, so I th...

A friend recommended James Rollins to me as I like books by Dan Brown, and Steve Barry. I have read a couple of his books so far and am in complete agreement with my friend. I find that the books start off in a very exciting way and hold my attention throughout. In this book, The Judas Strain, I am learning about Marco Polo and the mystery surrounding his 24 year voyage that took him to the palaces of Kublai Khan in China. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a historical thri...