When a US military satellite crashes into the remote wilds of Mongolia, a desperate search begins. The satellite contains a code-black physics project - research linked to the birth of our universe. And the last blurry image from the satellite offered a terrifying glimpse of the future. Meanwhile, a mysterious parcel arrives at the Vatican, containing a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound with human skin. DNA testing reveals that both are from Genghis Khan - the Mongol King whose undiscovered tomb is rumoured to hold the vast treasures and knowledge of a lost empire....

At the Polar Ice Cap, an American scientific research team find a Russian ice station hidden deep with an iceberg. As word of the existence of the base leaks out, Russians and Americans rush to the scene to cover up any trace of scientific research.

Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. Soon the CIA operative and former special forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm.

The world is racing towards destruction... The gripping thriller from NEW YORK TIMES bestseller James Rollins

In Washington DC, a homeless man dies in the arms of Commander Gray Pierce clutching a bloody coin in his hand - an ancient artefact that could unlock a plot threatening the very foundation of humanity. Meanwhile, a group of international scientists are engineering children with exceptional talents into something far greater.

At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peters Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. Senator's son is slain in a Red Cross camp in Ghana. These three murders bear a horrifying tie - all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.

Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery - hundreds of mummified bodies - stirs international attention and fervent controversy. The local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the remains, along with the strange artefacs found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script.

Buried deep within a jungle, ancient ruins conceal a deadly secret. Buried in a tomb in Venice, an explorer hides a truth that could shatter history. Buried in our genetic code, a mystery like no other. This is a thriller from the author of 'Map of Bones'.

Go to the ends of the earth and back with the elite scientists of Sigma Force as they race to crack the ultimate mystery of mankind, a quest that will save or destroy us.

Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Her search for answers leads her into a world she never imagined existed - a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, where something astonishing is waiting.