By Piper Bayard
In James Rollins’ BLOODLINE, futuristic science meets ancient mysticism to produce a non-stop thrill ride that will keep readers turning pages into the wee hours and leave them making excuses to their employers about why they are late to work, looking like they just came from an all-night party.
BLOODLINE is the latest in Rollins’ SIGMA Force series, in which a top secret special operations division of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency investigates and neutralizes apocalyptic technological threats. When Somali pirates kidnap the US president’s pregnant daughter, Commander Gray Pierce and SIGMA team up with former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog, Kane, to find her. What they uncover is a plot born in the ancient past that they must thwart before it comes to fruition, changing the very nature of human life in the quest for immortality. From the backlands of Somalia to the opulence of Dubai and the halls of Western power, Rollins extracts cryptic threads from the shrouded past and deftly weaves them into a clever tapestry of modern adventure.
One of the occupational hazards of being a writer is becoming too critical to get lost in stories, instead picking them apart and analyzing them until all books, movies, and shows are an extension of work. Rollins, however, plaits tales that envelope and transport even the most jaded realist into a world where good really can triumph against the odds. A reminder we can all use now and again.
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Piper Bayard is a belly dancer from way back and a recovering attorney with a university degree or two. She currently pens dystopian sci-fi and spy novels with her spook writing partner, Jay Holmes, when she isn’t shooting, SCUBA diving, or chauffeuring her children.
Her debut dystopian thriller, FIRELANDS, releases June 14, 2013 through Stonehouse Ink Publishing. She blogs at Bayard & Holmes. You may contact her in blog comments, on Twitter at , on Facebook at , or by email at .
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