The Judas Strain: A Sigma Force Novel

“Cannibals, man eating squid, a bacteria that may wipe out humanity—Rollins’s high octane spectacle has it all.”

— People

“A fast paced meld of intrigue, medical thriller, and historical mystery that owns echoes of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain…Rollins invests The Judas Strain with his characteristic command of detail, along with a creeping dread. The world won’t have to wait for gradual environmental calamity. It is about to be visited upon us in a matter of days. And he makes it all seem all too plausible.”

— Post and Courier (Charleston)

“Rollins Effortlessly Blends Science and superstition in grand tradition of Clive Cussler and David Morrel to make The Judas Strain the best pure action thriller in recent memory.”

— Providence Journal

“You won’t want to put this adventure thrill ride down…There’s a code to crack, a disease to cure, a villain to outsmart, words of an angel to translate. And, just to to make going to sleep out of the question, the fate of every man, woman, and child on Earth hangs in the balance.”

— Knoxville News Sentinel

“Rollins does his job: thrills promised, then delivered.”

— Tampa Tribune

The crack, ultrasecret Sigma Force team returns in another adventure that, as usual, unfolds at breakneck speed. Sigma Force, made up of former Special Forces officers trained as experts in various scientific fields (“killer scientists,” one of their number calls them), scours the world for technologies that could help or threaten the U.S. This time the group’s mission involves a devastating bacteriological plague, a mysterious cryptogram that may predate humanity, and the deadly truth about what happened after Marco Polo’s expedition to China. After a handful of Sigma Force novels, Rollins has fine-tuned the formula to precision: characters rendered in broad strokes, punchy dialogue, short paragraphs that propel us headlong through the story. The novels are like prose versions of comic books, or lightly fleshed out movie treatments. But this is not a criticism, at least not completely. The books’ style perfectly matches their subject matter, and it’s impossible not to be swept up by their energy and excitement. Action/adventure fans unfamiliar with Rollins’ work should be emphatically urged to read this series.

— David Pitt, Booklist

“THE JUDAS STRAIN is a 400-plus-page adventure novel that takes us around the world in search of answers to questions that spark the imagination. Rollins’s latest thriller should appeal to those who prefer books that focus on serpentine plots rather than multidimensional characters, and it will give readers something scary to think about while vacationing at the beach.”

— Donna Volkenannt, Bookreporter.com