Part of Sigma Force, book 12
First published 2016
Professor Harold McCabe staggers out of the Sudanese desert after two years missing, his body partially mummified while still breathing. He dies before revealing what happened to him during his search for evidence of Moses' ten plagues. When the medical team that examined McCabe falls sick with an unknown disease spreading through Cairo, Sigma Force director Painter Crowe receives an urgent call for help. Assassins incinerate all evidence, forcing Crowe to work with McCabe's daughter Jane to piece together her father's research. She uncovers connections linking the crisis to Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and explorer Henry Morgan Stanley. As the pandemic spreads globally, Crowe and Commander Grayson Pierce split up across continents. One searches plague-stricken Cairo and ancient Sudanese tombs for answers. The other races to stop a brilliant madman operating from an Arctic facility. The team faces a threat that combines ancient mysteries with cutting-edge science, triggering a series of plagues that could kill every child on Earth and destroy humanity itself.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, mystery, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, race-against-time
Setting: Cairo, Sudan, Arctic
Period: 21st-century
425 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow
Content warnings: death, medical-trauma