I began read the Sigma Force series written by James Rollins earlier this year. I intended to read one per month to catch up but I fell behind... Finally, I pushed myself to jump back in and read the sixth installment, The Doomsday Key, this week. What a wild ride! If you like action adventure novels with an international thriller style, you'll love these. Sure, there's a lot of suspending reality and looking things up to decide what's real and what's not, but the author also includes a section ...

অনেকদিনের ব্রেক নিয়ে রলিন্সের সিগমা ফোর্সের এই বইটি পড়লাম। বেশ ভাল লাগল, লেখকের অন্য বইগুলোর মতো দ্রুতগতির একটা বই। যদিও বইটিতে বানান অনেক প্যারা দিয়েছে। প্ল্যান এর জায়গায় অনেকবার প্যান , গ্রে এর জায়গায় অল্প কয়েকবার গে এগুলো চোখে পড়ার মতো। কিন্তু অনুবাদ অনেক ভাল ছিল। আশা করি সিরিজের অন্যান্য বইগুলো তাড়াতাড়ি পড়ে ফেলতে পারব।

I read this while I was in the goofy garage during 2014. My delightful friends supported my reading habit, and never once wondered (to me, that is, I have no idea what they said amongst themselves!) why I was asking for Rollins's books.I wanted to read them because they are very entertaining, have enough plot and character development to keep me distracted from being in a public mental health facility, and are intensely visually told stories with deep sci-fi roots and some supernatural almost-Lo...

Reading such books I always wonder how the author manages to combine all these pieces into a more or less coherent story. And a relatively believable story. Relatively, because, let's be honest, global conspiracies are definitely in the world of fantasy.Anyway, there is something about bringing together all those seemingly unmatchable elements into a consistent plot which makes me look at the author as someone between a magician and a composer. Regardless of whether we like books of this genre o...

I've read a few of the later Sigma Force books, and decided to go back and read the earlier ones. I thought the story in The Doomsday Key was a bit weak, and I had trouble accepting the villain’s rather absurd plans involving genetically modified food. The Sigma versus The Guild parts work well, but the main story is muddled.

আ সিরিজ উইদিন আ সিরিজ! রলিন্সের সিগমা ফোর্সের পক্ষ দুইটা। ন্যায়ের পক্ষে সিগমা, অন্যায়ের পক্ষে দ্য গিল্ড। দুই সংঘটন এর টক্কর-কাহিনির অন্য নাম সিগমা ফোর্স সিরিজ (অন্তত এই বইয়ের আগ পর্যন্ত)। খাপে খাপ মেলানো কঠিন একটা কাজ। খাপে খাপ মিলিয়ে কোন জিনিস বানিয়ে, সেটাকে তুলে নিয়ে অন্য কিছু একটার সাথে খাপ খাওয়ানো সম্ভবত তার চাইতেও কঠিন। সেই কঠিনের উপরে ততোদিক কঠিন কাজটা করেছেন রলিন্স সাহেব।ডুমসডে কী, ডেভিল কলোনী আর দ্য ব্লাডলাইন-সিগমা ফোর্সের এই তিন বইকে সম্ভবত একটা সফল সেপারেট ট্রিলজি বলা চলে। সিগমা...

This is James Rollins at the top of his game. His thrillers are among the best there are. As far as I'm concerned, he's writing them better than Michael Crichton and Clive Cussler did and Dan Brown is doing. What I particularly appreciate is Rollins' "Note to Readers" at the end of the book about the "truth or fiction" in his stories. He tells us where he got some of his ideas from and tells about books that are about some of these ideas that we can follow up on. A few other authors do this, but...

Posted to The Literary Lawyer.ca One of Rollins Best - 5 Stars I enjoyed this book too much to give it any less than 5 stars. It had all of the history and science elements to push my buttons. Irish history and lore, Druids, pagan and Christian history. Polar bears and the dangers of genetically modified crops all wrapped up in a nice shiny conspiracy. As usual, you have your share of explosions, near misses and enough action to keep the pulse racing. Plot Summary The plot of a Rollins nov...

I'll say about this book, what I've said about each of the books in James Rollins "Sigma Force" series: outstanding. He has won me over, and my 19 year old daughter as well. The two of us are fans of the way in which Rollins incorporates true historical and scientific elements into his works of fiction. We also appreciate his 'separating fact from fiction' section, at the back of the book, as well as his suggestions for additional readings on his 'meaty' topics. These books are surprisingly dev...

Once again the Sigma Force goes up against the sinister organization known as The Guild. The book opens with the destruction of an experimental farm in Africa and a massacre of all the staff and refugees in the farm. A member of the staff was the son of a US senator and the Sigma Force was given the task of investigating what happened. Monk Kokkalis, member of the Sigma Force, was about to interview the colleague of the senator's son, when a group of assasins killed the colleague and blew up his...