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A construction project beneath the National Mall reveals a dark secret dating back to the Civil War, something buried by a cabal of scientists, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who helped found the Smithsonian Institution. It is a cache of bones, preserved in amber, protecting a wonder like no other, the very secret of life after death. But such a prize is guarded by a horror out of the ancient past, a horror that still lives in the marrow of those bones - and is now free again.

A vicious attack at a ranch in California thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the fold of the Sanguines. Following the prophetic words found in the Blood Gospel, Erin must join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to discover and protect a boy believed to be an angel given flesh. But an enigmatic enemy of immense power and terrifying ambition seeks the same child, not to save the world, but to hasten its destruction.

Galilee, 1025. A cunning Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure: the Bachal Isu - the staff of Jesus Christ - a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that will forever change humanity if unleashed. A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast off the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman and brutally killing her husband. Painter Crowe and his SIGMA team are enlisted for the top secret rescue mission. The kidnappee is the daughter of the U.S. President.

High in Nepal, a monastery erupts with savagery and madness. Deep in a German mine, abomination wears the innocent face of a child. Hidden in the jungles of Africa, experiments rooted in a dark past have found fertile ground again.

Un gruppo di individui, vestiti da monaci, fa irruzione nella cattedrale di Colonia durante la celebrazione di una messa solenne, uccide tutti i presenti e s'impadronisce delle reliquie custodite in un sarcofago sotto l'altare: le ossa dei re Magi. Per il segretario di Stato vaticano non ci sono dubbi: quella strage è un attacco al cuore della Cristianità e i suoi responsabili vanno fermati prima che altri spaventosi sacrilegi siano compiuti.

Einst beherrschten sie die Erde. Nun haben skrupellose Menschen sie neu erschaffen... Nur die Topagenten des wissenschaftlichen Geheimdienstes Sigma Force können das Ende der Menschheit noch verhindern. Es begann im Jahre 1903, als einige Wissenschaftler ein Artefakt entdeckten, das die Hölle auf Erden loslassen sollte. Sie wagten nicht, es zu zerstören. Stattdessen vergruben sie es wieder und gelobten Schweigen. Doch nichts bleibt ewig verborgen. Heute, mitten in Washington DC, wird es erneut geborgen, und seine Macht von skrupellosen Menschen freigesetzt.

Das leibhaftige Böse treibt auf der Erde sein Unwesen, und die Archäologin Erin Granger ist die Einzige, die es aufhalten kann. Doch dafür muss sie ein uraltes Rätsel lösen, das im Evangelium des Blutes geschrieben steht: Was ist der Kelch des Luzifer und wie kann er neu geschmiedet werden?

The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies. From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in the making strikes out at the heart of America.

To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this pause-resisting thriller from number-one New York Times best-selling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.

Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend’s wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semicomatose state and cannot speak - until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to “unlock” her mind long enough to ask a few questions.

When Agent Gerald Clark, CIA operative and former special forces soldier, stumbles out of the Amazon into a small missionary village and dies, the CIA is baffled. Agent Clark had only one arm when he first came to the Amazon, but the photograph of him submitted by a Brazilian morgue shows a corpse with two upper limbs fully intact.

Una giovane donna irrompe nella casa di Grayson Pierce, agente segreto della Sigma, e sviene tra le sue braccia. Sconcertato, lui la riconosce all'istante: è Seichan, membro di spicco di una potente organizzazione terroristica. La donna è gravemente ferita e ha con sé un oggetto piccolo ma prezioso: un obelisco di pietra su cui sono incisi simboli di una lingua antichissima, addirittura antecedente ai geroglifici. Cosa significano quei segni? E chi vuole uccidere Seichan?

With the apocalyptic threat of moonfall looming ever closer, Nyx and her allies must venture into the eternally sunblasted lands to search for an ancient weapon buried untold millennia ago. All the while, enemies close upon her flanks, and a greater danger lurks ahead. For beneath a desert turned to glass, hidden from the scorching heat, life thrives—both wondrous and monstrous. But a more fearsome menace lies even deeper, where an ancient army has been seeded to protect a secret from any who dare seek it out.

Grayson Pierce, agente segreto della Sigma - una sezione occulta del dipartimento della Difesa statunitense -, è stato mandato a Copenhagen per seguire un'asta di libri antichi, che pare aver suscitato l'interesse di alcune organizzazioni terroristiche.

Vor Jahrtausenden hat die Erde aufgehört, sich zu drehen. Eine Seite ist nun permanent der Sonne zugewandt, die andere liegt in immerwährender Dunkelheit. Und Nacht für Nacht wird die blinde Nyx von einer schrecklichen Vision heimgesucht: Der Mond stürzt auf die Erde und vernichtet alles Leben. Doch niemand hört auf ihre Warnung, bis der Gelehrte Frell am Königshof sie durch Beobachtungen bestätigt. Er wird zum Tode verurteilt und kann in letzter Sekunde entkommen.

To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost—in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world they’ve only known in stories.

Das Britische Museum in London wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschüttert. Auslöser für die Detonation war offensichtlich eine mysteriöse Lichtkugel, aus reiner Antimaterie! Für Painter Crowe von der wissenschaftlichen Spezialeinheit SIGMA Force beginnt ein verzweifelter Wettlauf mit der Zeit: Denn wer immer diese unerschöpfliche Energiequelle zuerst in Händen hält, entscheidet über Leben und Tod der gesamten Menschheit!

Ein Brandanschlag im Kölner Dom fordert zahlreiche Opfer. Eiskalt nutzt eine mysteriöse Gruppe bewaffneter Mönche das darauf folgende Chaos, um eine der wichtigsten Reliquien der Christenheit zu rauben: die Gebeine der Heiligen Drei Könige. Für Top-Agent Grayston Pierce und seine SIGMA Force beginnt ein atemberaubender Wettlauf, denn die Reliquie liefert den Schlüssel zu einer neuen Weltordnung.

Das Britische Museum in London wird von einer gewaltigen Explosion erschüttert. Auslöser für die Detonation war offensichtlich eine mysteriöse Lichtkugel aus reiner Antimaterie!

NextPod is a weekly look at North American soccer prospects. Primarily focusing on MLS Next Pro, the Canadian Premier League, USL and NCAA soccer, hosts Duane Rollins and James Grossi are on the hunt for the next stars of MLS and European football. Published each Tuesday.