Judas Strain

<p><strong>An elite scientific military force must combat a plague beyond any cure--a scourge that turns all of nature against mankind in this nail-biting new thriller from James Rollins the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the Sigma Force series.</strong></p><p>From the depths of the Indian Ocean a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind - unknown unstoppable...and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow.</p><p>Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital. But a sudden and savage attack by terrorist hijackers turns the mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.</p><p>Time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. As the seconds tick closer to doomsday Sigma's commander Gray Pierce must join forces with the beautiful assassin who tried to kill him - following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history into the terrifying heart of an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code.</p>