NEW FROM JAMES ROLLINSNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

THE 6TH EXTINCTIONA REMOTE MILITARY RESEARCH STATION SENDS OUT A FRANTIC DISTRESS CALL, ENDING WITH A CHILLING

FINAL COMMAND: KILL US ALL! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover every-

one already dead—and not just the scientists, but every

living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every

animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria.

The land is entirely sterile—and the blight is spreading.

To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and

Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant

past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life

on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. Following

clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library

of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an

ancient continent, about a new form of death buried

under miles of ice.

From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to

mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today,

Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping

the coming extinction of mankind.

BUT IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE?

ISBN 13: 978-0-06-178481-1 | $27.99/$34.99 Can.

Available in hardcover, large-print, audio, and ebook editions.

ONE-DAY LAYDOWN AUGUST 12, 2014

BY THE NUMBERS

4.2 MILLION SIGMAs, and

2.5 MILLION non SIGMA series books

IN PRINT

Has appeared on

Bestseller list

27 TIMESPublished in

MORE THAN 75 COUNTRIES

Published in

34 LANGUAGES

86,487 Facebook Fans

41,700

Twitter Followers

3,544 Goodreads fans

Number of dogs James Rollins has (Penny, Duncan and Echo) Number of buses

with his picture on it

continents visited (Antarctica is still pending)

3 1

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ROAD MAPTHE RISE OF JAMES ROLLINS

MAY 1985 First earning an undergraduate degree in evolutionary biology, James Rollins graduates from veterinary school from the University of Missouri.

JUNE 1999 Subterranean, about a team of scientists that encounters a world of primitive creatures while exploring a secret underground labyrinth, is released and Rollins becomes an overnight success. Subterranean spends three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and six weeks on the USA Today bestseller list.

APRIL 2007 James Rollins is tapped to write the novelization of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull by Lucasfilm studios.

JANUARY 2013 The Order of the Sanguines Series debuts with The Blood Gospel and becomes an instant bestseller.

MAY 2014 James Rollins creates the first Sigma spin-off series featuring rogue agent Tucker Wayne and his military working dog Kane.

AUGUST 2014 The 6th Extinction marks 10 years of SIGMA.

NOVEMBER 2010 James Rollins embarks on a USO trip with fellow thriller writers to Iraq and Afghanistan. There he is inspired by the military working dogs and a former fellow veterinarian, who now works with the veterinary corps in Iraq, to create the characters of Tucker Wayne and his military dog Kane.

JUNE 2004 James Rollins launches the SIGMA series with Sandstorm.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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DEAR READER,Tom Clancy put military thrillers on the map. Scott Turow did the same for legal thrillers. Robin Cook

was the pioneer of medical thrillers; Michael Crichton, the creator of speculative science thrillers; and

Umberto Eco, the originator of religious, code breaking thrillers. They all wrote incredibly innovative,

creative works, but what they really did was set the stage for one author, who combines elements of many

of these genres into groundbreaking, unparalleled masterpieces of fiction: JAMES ROLLINS.

In 1999, a California veterinarian named James Rollins burst onto the literary scene with a novel un-

like anything ever seen before. Combining elements of scientific speculation, military suspense, threats

of global devastation, and the sheer wonder of a truly unexplored realm, Subterranean went on to sell a

million copies and change the world’s perception of what a suspense novel could be.

15 YEARS, 20 NOVELS, AND MORE THAN 6.7 MILLION COPIES LATER, Rollins has created a body of work that tran-

scends all genres. Simply put, there is no one who writes quite like James Rollins, no one who combines

the kind of disparate disciplines and storylines into one cohesive, convincing, and utterly entertaining

novel. And no one who can do it time and again, with the same incomparable brilliance.

Rollins’ work is shelved in the thriller section of the bookstore, and indeed he has been singled out by

critics and fans for intense action and suspense, breakneck pacing, and wildly imaginative plots in which

brave men and women race against the clock to save the world from spectacular threats.

But Rollins can’t be lumped in with thriller writers who simply rip their plots from the headlines. He

doesn’t try to be realistic: he expands reality. While his works are all firmly grounded in the reality

of human struggle, and based on dogged, meticulous research into cutting-edge science and unsolved

historical mysteries, he takes you beyond the confines of this world in which we all live and challenges

you to stretch your mind a little farther, to speculate on where we came from and where we are possibly,

likely heading.

TODAY ROLLINS IS BEST-KNOWN FOR THE SIGMA FORCE SERIES, a grand library of work that launched in 2004

with Sandstorm and has been growing and evolving over the course of nine books, with the tenth title,

The Sixth Extinction, forthcoming in 2014. While the Sigma Force novels are standalones that can be

read in any order, they feature a large ensemble cast of colorful characters whose relationships with one

another have grown in complexity and depth over the course of 1.5 million words. Together the novels

form a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts and is more rewarding with each new volume.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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In 2013 the Huffington Post called Rollins a “Renaissance Man” to whom the late Michael Crichton had

passed the baton of a new genre, “a unique combination of historical fact, thriller, and science fiction.”

This is the thinking reader’s fiction. You will sit at the edge of your seat, devouring a Rollins novel,

your breath in your throat, but when you finish and walk away, you will realize you have discovered new

truths about our past and present and a fresh, provocative way of looking at our future.

But behind all of these rich themes, these stimulating ideas, these wildly compelling scenarios, these

novels you can’t put down till you finish, there is a thoughtful, curious, inventive, charming man. A vet-

erinarian, with a background in evolutionary biology and a mastery of hard science and medicine, who

harbors a deep-seated depth of feeling and empathy found in those who devote their lives to animals. A

man with an insatiable appetite for knowledge who has been piecing together fascinating facts to spin

wondrous tales his entire life. First he enthralled his younger siblings with stories that gave them chills;

now, he turns that talent to the page and delights fans the world over.

I DARE YOU TO READ A JAMES ROLLINS NOVEL AND NOT BECOME A LIFELONG FAN.

Lyssa Keusch, Executive Editor

AND HIS SIGMA SERIESPRAISE FOR JAMES ROLLINS

“EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT EXCITEMENT.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Rollins HIGH-OCTANE spectacle has it all.” —PEOPLE

“Action/adventure fans unfamiliar with Rollins’ work should be emphati-cally URGED TO READ THIS SERIES.” —BOOKLIST

“Rollins combines REAL-WORLD SCIENCE WITH HIGH-OCTANE ACTION to create rousing stories of adventure that are as exciting as any movie.” —CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“ROLLINS HAS OUTDONE HIMSELF with this fabulous mix of history, science, and adventure that will easily increase his growing number of fans.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL

“There’s no time to catch your breath...RELENTLESS ACTION in spectacular places.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS

“From ancient tombs of Celtic kings to the latest techno-weaponry,

author Rollins combines history, science, fact and fiction in another THRILL-

A-MINUTE ADVENTURE.” —THE OKLAHOMAN

“The PERFECT ESCAPE NOVEL, an edge of-your-seat read.” —KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL

AND HIS SIGMA SERIESPRAISE FOR JAMES ROLLINS

“ADVENTUROUS AND ENORMOUSLY ENGROSSING…” –NPR

“The ULTIMATE story.” –SUSPENSE MAGAZINE

“The science in Bloodline reads like the best of Michael Crichton. The machinations of government read like the best of David Baldacci. And the action and thrills read like the best of Clive Cussler. ROLLINS TAKES THE BEST OF ALL OF THESE AND CREATES AN AMAZING THRILLER UNLIKE ANY OTHER.” —ASSOCIATED PRESS

“The Da Vinci Code on steroids.” —DESERT NEWS

“Mind-boggling ‘what-if ’s’ abound in the THRILLING novels by James Rollins. Action-packed storytelling.” —SACRAMENTO BEE

“The MODERN MASTER of the action thriller.” –PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

“HIS BOOKS HAVE EVERYTHING…yet it works, because Rollins is a master of controlled chaos.” —FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

“TOTALLY ADDICTIVE…”

—SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

“ROLLINS GETS BETTER WITH EACH BOOK, and his position at the top of this particular subgenre remains unshaken.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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BEHIND THE BOOKSFACT OR FICTION

One of the things that makes James Rollins’ novels so utterly compelling—and so

completely unique— is the way he uncovers unsolved historical and religious mys-

teries from our past and cutting edge scientific theories and combines them into a

seamless thriller narrative. Fans say they feel smarter after reading a Rollins novel,

and that is what transforms a fun, exciting read into a provocative and exceptional one.

And Rollins is exceptional.

At the end of each book, Rollins carefully lays out what details in his novels are factual

or based on fact. Here is just a sampling of the truths behind the novels.

CANNIBALS. As to the genetic condition known as Prader-Willi (resulting in insatiable appetites), it is a

real and horrible condition, but is in no way related to cannibalism. Were we all once cannibals? Current

research into genetics reveals humans carry a specific set of genes against diseases that can be acquired

only by eating human flesh. —From The Judas Strain

MAGNETIC FINGERTIPS. First, I want them…And, second, they are real and just as strange as I describe.

In the world of biohacking, there are thousands of people with rare-earth magnets implanted near the

nerve endings of their fingertips. It allows them to experience electrical fields in amazing ways. Those

who I’ve interviewed describe these fields as having texture, shape, rhythms, and even colors. It opens up

an entirely new way of experiencing the world. And once accustomed to them, it’s apparently hard to go

back. Many say they feel blind without them. It definitely is a new world. —From The Eye of God

THE BELL, WWII. The Bell itself is indeed real, proving truth is often stranger than fiction. The Nazis had

constructed a bizarre device, fueled by an unknown compound named Xerum 525. Little is known about

its true functioning, only that when it was powered up, a strange illness afflicted the scientist involved,

reaching as far as neighboring villages. At the end of the war, the Bell vanished, the scientists involved

were executed, and to this day, what became of the device remains a mystery. —From Black Order

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BEHIND THE BOOKSFACT OR FICTION

JEWISH INCANTATION SKULLS…AND OTHER MACABRE ODDITIES. Archaeologists have uncovered more

than two thousand Jewish incantation bowls, most dated between the third and seventh centuries. But

they’ve also found a few such skulls used for the same purpose, as a ward against demons or for the

casting of spells. And yes, anthropodermic bibliopegy, the binding of books with human skin, is a real

thing. Some rare books have been found to include people’s faces. But the strangeness doesn’t stop there.

French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars used to craft boats out of human bones and sell them to

the British. —From The Eye of God

SAINT MALACHY. Malachy was an Irish saint who lived during the twelfth century and is said to have

performed many miraculous healings, along with recording his famous prophecies of the popes. He was

indeed buried in a tomb at Clairvaux Abbey, and the ruins of that abbey do oddly enough lie within the

grounds of a maximum-security prison (a prison started by Napoleon). As for the prophecies, here are

Malachy’s descriptions of the last few popes in history:

A. POPE PAUL VI (1963-1978) is described with the words Flos Florum, or “flower of flowers.”

His heraldic coat of arms bore three lilies.

B. POPE JOHN PAUL I (1978) is named by Malachy as De Medietate Lunae, or “of the half moon.”

His papacy lasted one month, crossing from one half moon to the next.

C. POPE JOHN PAUL II (1978-2005) is designated as De Labore Solis, or “from the labor of the

sun,” which was a common metaphor for a solar eclipse. The pope was born on the day of a

solar eclipse.

D. POPE BENEDICT XVI (2005-2013) is described as De Gloria Olivae, or the “glory of the olive.”

The Benedictine order, from which the pope took his name, has the olive branch as its symbol.

E. THEN THERE IS THE LAST POPE, THE ONE WHO WOULD OVERSEE THE WORLD’S END: Petrus

Romanus. His description is the longest of them all. In extreme persecution, the seat of the

Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter the Roman, who will feed the sheep through

many tribulations, at the term of which the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the for-

midable Judge will judge His People. The End.

But as Vigor mentioned to Gray, this last pope is not numbered as the others were before him. Some have

interpreted this to mean that there could be more popes between Pope Benedict XVI and the last pope.

I guess only time will reveal the truth. —From The Doomsday Key