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Genre: Combat fiction

Year of publication: 2012

Series: Sigma Squad

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Twenty years ago, the English archaeologist and millionaire Reginald Kensington disappeared without a trace in the legendary city of Ubar, lost in the Arabian desert. After a mysterious explosion in the gallery founded by Kensington, where treasures from Ubar are collected, scientists discover inside a stone statue, shattered by the explosion, a strange metal part - an exact replica of the human heart. The daughter of an archaeologist equips a scientific expedition in order to penetrate the secrets kept by the desert. However, this explosion attracts the attention of not only scientists, but also an international criminal group seeking to seize some mysterious force hidden somewhere in the dungeons of Ubar.

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I really like the books of the mystery book series - the bestseller book and also I love the desert. And here they are both in one pot. Moreover, the cauldron is the Arabian desert, so I probably have very little information about it, and somehow I never thought about it, about those ancient cities, about the peoples that inhabited this peninsula, everything brought me to other places in books. Although the creak of sand on my teeth, a face that must be hidden from him, because sand penetrates everywhere, into any wrinkles, and there is nothing to say about the eyes, I experienced all this in small quantities, even though in a completely different place and in another desert (well, or an area close to the desert).
This is the first book in the series about the Sigma squad, I have already read (it happened) the 7th book of the Blood Line about it, and therefore I decided to start with the first one and I think to go to the end, although all the Rollins books are very dynamic and exciting in future plans. From the first page, the author throws you into a curious plot, into unusual adventures and does not let your imagination go to the last. And he has so many events that you are amazed. So many new and interesting, although sometimes impossible, collapses that you wonder how so many things passed by you, why you were not interested in it before. Here and biology and physics and chemistry and archeology and much more. This is what I like about the author's books. Although, of course, I understand that this is a fairy tale and there are very, very many fictions in it, like in any other fairy tale, but it is written in such a way that I perceive everything as reality - not always, but often.
I don’t like it like in all of his books, but this is the third book that I read with him, that there’s a lot of shooting and blood. Moreover, the first part of the book was simply amazing, but the end, well, too boyish, with all the attributes of struggle, shooting. And how strange it is that all the villains died, and all the right ones remained - although this should be so in a fairy tale, good always triumphs over evil. But how all this quickly happened, such was the superiority in numbers and equipment among bad boys and girls, and somehow everything went somewhere.
It was interesting to read about women rakhim, of course you understand that this is an invention of all these mutations, although who knows. About the artifacts that are present in three religions, this is generally the strongest in my opinion - well, I can't pass by religion just like that, everything is interesting and informative for me, although I am an atheist or an agnostic…. I don't know, but it's interesting to know the strengths and weaknesses.
I do not always and do not like all mythology, but here it was very interesting for me, and the description of the desert is mine, mine. The underground city simply mesmerized.
I liked that the author explained at the end what came from, what facts and where he got them from. Of course, again I had to visit other sites, read about this or that event and phenomenon. This I like riddle books, give room for curiosity and its satisfaction then somewhere else. And the map of the Arabian Peninsula lends credence to the events, and with curiosity and interest you follow the heroes and guess riddles. And how I like that the books in the series are so big, you read them, you read them with great pleasure and you don't want them to end.
I liked the hero Painter, his rival in the Omaha love line somehow faded into the background, she was waiting for him to prove himself, as he is called Indiana Jones in the book, but somehow she did not really wait. At first I wondered who Sofia would eventually give her heart to, but then everything became clear and probably logical.
Oddly enough, she liked Kara, and Safiya - she was given the main role - such a savior of the world, as it was all too much. In some ways she liked it when she was solving riddles, for example, but I didn't really get into her, something was not enough or, on the contrary, there was a lot.
In general, I rested with might and main and learned something from the new book.

GeorgijBarbashov

Hello people, heee-uh-hey everyone! * waves hand *
Damn, when you read the beginning of the reviews from live lib users and compare them with your own, it seems that you are the only one who is positive on this portal, everyone has such highly intelligent reviews, there are a million buzzwords, sometimes it even seems as if they are participating in an invisible competition "who knows more than 800 terms" ... And we will try to write another review in our own words.
Finally, finally, this is a new book by Rollins, an author from my beloved, whom I recently had time to scold quite often, read and the title is dedicated to the author!
Ha! And I'll start my review by sending the unfaithful and stupid to the ass. Like this :) I love to surprise. Let's figure it out. Friends, for the first time I stuck a sticker into the book even before the introductory page with the title of the novel and the author's surname, and the reason to decorate the book with a bright sticker gave the footnote "read all the books of James Rollins" and below is a list of both his individual novels and detachment "Sigma" and here I wiped my nose to all the reptiles who actively argued with me, foaming at the mouth, proving that the collection in which the story about Seyhan "Path of the Dead" was mentioned is included in the cycle of the Sigma detachment and is considered as +1 to cycle. What can I say, now it is officially documented that you go to the farm to catch butterflies and dragonflies, because even in this list of that collection of stories as adjoining and considered to be a volume included in the cycle - no! "The path" is indicated here, but as a collection, therefore, I officially declare to haters and those who don’t fumble with your mother and argue with me - The seventh execution is the 12th book of the cycle about Sigma! Twelfth, do you understand ?!
Intellectual review, I look it doesn't smell ... Let's put aside the stickers for now and talk about our impressions.
The last book that this author liked about Sigma was "Bloodline", perhaps because it also mentioned a guild - a detachment that prevents Sigma, in other words, a structure that had access to the latest developments in scientific technology, like the Sigma detachment, but was dark side, a coin that has fallen to the surface with the shadow side.
For in further books after the "bloodline" the guild did not emerge, but I did not believe until the last that the author had left it. She was the one who made the books with raisin cupcake, fudge baba! In this story, the word guild came up, maybe that's why I'm happy with what Rollins presented to me, but I have another option, why I liked the book, or rather option two!
Genetics.
I noticed that Rollins' books on genetics are going with a bang! The same Bloodline was about genetics, the fourth book of the cycle - the seal of Judas was also about genetics and I really liked it! Maybe this is the reason why I liked the novel.
But the third option is also possible, and the simplest and most unusual - in this, the twelfth part, the heroes from ... for a second returned to us! - the first book! The first book ... you are like a seeming oasis, like a ghostly breeze in the endless desert - so distant, but not yet forgotten. The first novel of the cycle is a sand devil, it all started with you, my book profile began with you, reading other literature began with you (before, for two years I had read only the books of Glukhovsky's universe). I can call myself an expert on James Tchaikovsky (Rollins), when you go to Wikipedia to read information about him, you know, I participated in filling his page with information. Yes, many of you put your hand to the wiki pages? I am not bragging, but proud of the knowledge about this author and his work. I have never seen a response to his books more meaningful than mine \u003d P Therefore, it is very funny sometimes to read when they ask questions to someone else, a Rollins lover, and he gives him information, just under the type of the collection "path of the dead" enters the cycle about Sigma. By the way, the new novel by James Rollins about Sigma has already been written and will be submitted to the editors in early June, and the publication in English will be presented on December 5, 2017, the book will be called "The Demon's Crown" - this is the 13th part about Sigma, around March - On April 18th we can expect a translation and release from EKSMO. We wait. Well, fans and fans of Tchaikovsky, did you own this info? Yes? With all the details and dates? Exactly? (I remembered an episode from the fourth Die Hard, when Timothy Olyphant asked his thug: Are you holding her? Exactly?)
Here, I have given you three reasons why I might like the Seventh Execution. Reading the bone labyrinth and the sixth extinction, I already thought that the author wrote out, but no, James, you are on a horse and still on a horse!
YESAAAAA !!!
Now let's get back to the stickers. Here's one of them I stuck in order not to forget to ask about this.
Already not in the first book, I come across a mention as an example of tycoons - Howard Hughes, Henry Ford and John Rockefeller. Tell me why only these three and only in that order? It seems that there is some kind of secret community, somewhere in a dungeon, in which all the authors of the world, like Freemasons, gather and peep over each other's work: he mentioned Hughes, Ford and Rockefeller, I will put them in my example.
Does it happen that you just read a new word in a book and decided to remember it, having never met it before and already in the next you come across it, and then in the third, and so on? You have not wondered how and why this happens, because since it has been mentioned so often lately, why has it never happened before? I have one of the last, this is the word "Macabr". It has nothing to do with Rollins and the "seventh execution", just as an example, I saw it for the first time on the cover of a book published by ROSMEN, then I immediately came across it in Kostya Obraztsov's book "Red Chains", then I heard it elsewhere - then in literary news ... To this phenomenon can be added the lights of St. Elmo. Do you know what it is? In this case, I was familiar with this set of letters, unlike the macabre, for a very long time, but! - it was again mentioned in Obraztsov's book, which I read the previous one and now in Rollins's book :) Coincidence?) I have a lot of books on my "shelf" and choose the ones where St. Elmo's lights met in a row - this is nuuu, from the world of fantasy. I really love the mysteries of the past and I watch, study, read texts (not in literature, but, for example, in articles) about ghost ships or something like that, from there I learned about the lights. This is a very mysterious, at the same time mystical and very bewitching sight. Google it, who does not know what St. Elmo's lights are. It was from such fascinating articles that I learned about the ghost ship "Maria Celeste" which has a very strange and mysterious story, which was also mentioned in Obraztsov's book :)
Okay, we retired, from Ford, Rockefeller and Hughes.
I have one moment for which I will have to scold the author, I do not want to do this, but I cannot say that the book was good when it contained what, in my opinion, could be called a blot on the letter.
There is such an episode in the plot (don't worry, it cannot be called a spoiler), when two people who are looking for around the world are pierced by sheer nonsense. There is a brother and a sister, they are both albino and appeared with a bad company in bad times for themselves. But we are all people and we all need money (this is how this world works), so our characters got a job, let me remind you that these people are still hiding and so that they are not figured out they cover up tattoos with makeup and make documents with fictitious names and surnames. Everything seems to be true so far and there is nothing special, right? And here's what's next. Then we learn that these people with an interesting appearance invented the same surname, from which it is easy and immediately clear that they are brother and sister. Now let's return to the one they are looking for - the brother and sister. Hmm, are they ... Hmm ... Masters of conspiracy, of course. Why not take different surnames, so that if you go out to one person, you cannot connect him with the second? This trick does not threaten you with the disclosure of the plot, because after reading it you did not understand anything, but it really played into the hands of the author in order to connect the plots, because if this incident did not exist, I do not know how Rollins would have to break his head to come up with an alternative way of capturing these people for further connection with the storyline. I did not like it. This is tantamount to the fact that the author interferes in the course of judgments and behavior of the heroes and does not allow them to act independently. The author should not be involved in the actions of his characters, he should write as a neutral person and give them the right to choose. There was another such moment in the book. They provoked a fight, a representative of the company where this fight took place apologized for the participant in the massacre and did it politely enough: I apologize for what happened, - he said, walking down the corridor. - The measure will be taken. Certainly.
After these words, they pushed him and instructed the weapon. Maybe this person is bad, but he apologized, he knows how to do it, which means that not everything is so bad, then we will see another unusual act from this person, who makes it clear that he is not cold and not an avid villain. Therefore, this situation crushes a little with its contrast. I would not be able to kick someone in the mouth who apologized simply because they misbehaved with other people in the past. Probably. But at the moment he apologized sincerely. If, after apologizing, he would have provoked me, then he would have kicked me in the teeth, but responding to kindness in a specific period of time with malice is unusual for me and is considered bad form, not upbringing, most likely I would not point the barrel at him after that and flooded mission \u003d)
There is also a cool moment to discuss. There is a hero in the book, Commander Grayson Pierce, and so, he is an unusually intelligent person who has such a keen wit that he often has to explain his thoughts and guesses to others in order to understand the rest. In Rollins' books, there are many hieroglyphs and images, the author adds them and closely intertwines the plot with them, so what the characters are looking at we also see (a good feature of the author). In the next such image, which our Persians are looking at, another image is encrypted that needs to be seen. This situation happens a second time, since the heroes in the past have already looked at a similar picture only with different outlines, but the essence remains the same. And here is a picture in front of me in the book. I look at it and understand what is the point based on the previous picture. Everything, looked, now it's time to continue reading the text, and this is what Gray Pierce says there:
“Yes, another one ... hidden in an Egyptian drawing,” Jane nodded.
- But where is she? Gray asked. “I don’t see anything. Gray, the one about whom I wrote above that his brain is a megobrain! But at the same time I saw a picture hidden in another, simply proceeding from the first, similar in meaning and image. So that it is, I can be taken to the Sigma special squad? 8) After reading the review, many will not understand what the book is about. I add, a book that the detachment needs to save humanity from the threat of infection. The plot is built on several things: inventions of a talented scientist, about whom I already know everything, thanks to the documentary book of Matyunin Evgeny - Nikola Tesla; at Nikola's acquaintance with Mark Twain, at the executions of Egypt, at the prophecy of Moses iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii and the gods of Olympus, Zeus as my waiters, how did you masterfully put it all together, my friend! I read, as I wrote above, a book about Tesla and I know what it really was. "It" is a statement that he has discovered a new kind of energy! That this is the future of humanity !!! And what a Rollins! - took scientific opinions of experts and created this type of energy based on bacteria, which ... But what kind of bacteria, you can find out only after reading this book;) * there should be a malicious smile * We all walk! Summer is ahead, good mood, cool incendiary summer music!
Avicii - Hey Brother
Don Diablo & Marnik - Children Of A Miracle (Marnik Chill Mix)
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Detachment "Sigma" 01 While I was reading this book, a physicist and a lyricist were fighting in me. The physicist muttered twice per page: "Enchanting nonsense. How can you read this? And don't you mind wasting time on this blizzard?" And the lyricist justified himself in about the same quantities: "Well, I sometimes watch" Die Hard "," X-Men "and" Iron Man "? And why is Rollins worse?" If we abstract from the delusional idea of \u200b\u200bantimatter, which would obviously suit my taste taught on the history of the ancient world (oh, how we loved these lectures, read from the newspaper "Top secret"! \u003d))), it turns out a pretentious thriller set in the scenery of the scorching desert and archaeological sites of Oman. If we remove the herd of supermen from the book, the pitiful turns of the series "steel muscles" and no less delusional than antimatter, the author's fantasies about the pathogenesis in a separate clan of the heiresses of the Queen of Sheba, then this book would pull on a frail four. But nifiga. All this and even the wagon and the small cart of Hollywood stamps from the book will not go anywhere, no matter how gullible readers spit. The "Abyss" I read before the same Rollins did not cause such rejection in me. Although it is difficult to call her a masterpiece. The only thing that can save the "Sand Devil" is the film adaptation. There is enough action in the book to make a box-office action movie. Yes, and on the screen, such a popular science pseudo-historical fantasy looks an order of magnitude more lively. I'll try to read one more book about Sigma. Maybe Rollins is still being rehabilitated in my eyes? More bile to Rollins in the Indiana Jones story of the Ukrainian spill.

(estimates: 1 , the average: 4,00 out of 5)

Title: Sand Devil
By James Rollins
Year: 2004
Genre: Foreign Fiction, Foreign Fantasy, Foreign Adventure, Science Fiction, Adventure, etc.

About the book "Sand Devil" by James Rollins

Historical monuments still excite the hearts of those who want to unravel their secrets. And people who are far from archeology are not averse to learning a couple of clues to our planet and people who lived many centuries ago. That is why historical literature has always enjoyed and will enjoy great success among readers.

And if you add a little fiction, detective, action, add some mysticism to a historical novel? Then you get the book "Sand Devil" by James Rollins. The author has a series of books, each of which tells about one or another mysterious place on our planet.

The plot of the book "Sand Devil" is not banal and exciting. During the research in the city of Ubar in the Arabian desert, the scientist and millionaire Reginald Kensington disappears without a trace. Prior to this, the archaeologist created his own gallery, in which he collected all the treasures found in Ubar. After his disappearance, an explosion occurred in the gallery, as a result of which a very interesting object was found. Inside the stone statue, experts found a metal heart that completely repeats the real human heart.

The scientist's daughter goes there twenty years later to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance. But, as usually happens in our world, there is a group that does not mind finding treasures for themselves, and taking possession of the amazing power that is in the dungeons of Ubara.

The book "Sandy Devil" at first seeks to confuse its reader, and not just the main characters. In addition, there are also a lot of heroes in the book, and the events associated with them. But after reading, you understand why James Rollins needed it.

The book keeps you in suspense until the very last page. And, again, not only the reader, but also the heroes, because practically throughout history they are constantly on the verge of death.

The book "Sand Devil" is beautiful because it contains the mysteries of history, which are described in great detail. In addition, James Rollins does not miss the opportunity to present his interpretation of the secrets and everything that our Earth keeps.

The work is very rich: you will visit both the beautiful desert and the tombs, and you will observe how good triumphs over evil. In addition, all heroes are very versatile, they all possess the latest technologies that simply amaze the imagination, they are all savvy and quick-witted.

You won't have to puzzle over what exactly James Rollins had in mind in a particular chapter, but it won't be boring for you. The book "Sand Devil" is a mixture of historical facts and fiction, which, to some extent, answers some questions, but also begets others.

The book "Sand Devil" makes you think, reflect, analyze, but at the same time does not strain. You can relax and enjoy the incredible history of James Rollins. We recommend the book to everyone who is not indifferent to history, who wants to have a good time with a good book and who wants to feel like an archaeologist or a scientist, puzzling over what this world sometimes presents to us.

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Quotes from the book "Sand Devil" by James Rollins

If God had ordained man to sail the oceans, he would not have turned dinosaurs into fuel for jet engines.

As the saying goes, necessity, damn it, is the mother of progress.

Often, a panic attack is preceded by paranoia, a feeling of overwhelming anxiety, which makes you see threat and danger where they are not.

When a person constantly looks back, he stumbles more often.

Any criminal organization is like the mythical Hydra: in place of one cut off head, a new one will inevitably grow.

Remember, my child, life does not move in a straight line, but in a circle.

There are many men with noble hearts in the world. It's just that some of them take a little longer to know themselves.

Life is made up of merciless tragedies that strike suddenly. There is nothing permanent in it; no peace of mind, no security.

The best lie is always the one that is as close to the truth as possible ...

Only those who are ready to transgress all laws in order to achieve their goals can receive true power.

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Detachment "Sigma" - 1

Dedicated to Catherine, Adrien and RG, the new generation

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

Defense Research Prospect Planning Department

Case No. Alpha-42-PKR

Detachment "Sigma"

Part one

Fire and rain

British museum

London, England

Harry Masterson was to die in thirteen minutes.

If Harry had guessed about this, he would have smoked the last cigarette in his life to the very filter. However, he stubbed out his butt after three hasty puffs and hastily pushed the smoke away from his face. If they find him smoking outside the restroom, that son of a bitch Flemming, the head of the museum's security service, will give him the first number. Harry had already been on probation a week ago for being two hours late on duty.

Muttering a curse, Harry pocketed the extinguished cigarette. You can smoke it next break. If there is a respite at all tonight.

Thunder could be heard even through the thick brick walls. The winter thunderstorm began shortly after midnight with a frenzied cannonade of hail, followed by a flood that threatened to wash London into the Thames. Lightning with multi-pronged pitchforks slashed the sky from edge to edge. According to the BBC's weather announcer, the current thunderstorm was one of the worst in a decade. The outrage of atmospheric electricity left half of the city without electricity.

Fate decreed that darkness covered exactly that part of London, in which the British Museum stood on Big Russell Street, where Harry Masterson was on duty at that hour. Despite the fact that the backup generators were immediately operational, providing emergency lighting, all security personnel were urgently called in to further protect the museum's treasures. They will arrive at the site within the next half hour. And while the surveillance cameras continued to operate, Flemming ordered the entire night shift to patrol the two and a half miles of museum corridors. For this, the guards had to split up.

Taking the flashlight, Harry directed the beam down the hallway. He hated nocturnal rounds when the museum was covered in twilight. At this time, light only penetrates through the windows from street lamps. However, now, due to a power outage, they went out. The museum was plunged into an ominous darkness, with only specks of reddish light from the dim emergency lamps flickering here and there.

Harry desperately needed a dose of nicotine to calm his nerves, but he couldn't chill out for long. Work awaited him. Occupying the bottom rung of the night shift hierarchy, Harry was ordered to bypass the halls of the north wing - the part of the museum that was farthest from the basement, where the security office was located. But this in no way meant that the path could not be shortened. Turning his back to the long corridor that receded into the darkness, Harry walked to the door leading to the Great Courtyard of Queen Elizabeth II.

This two-acre space was surrounded by the four wings of the British Museum. In the very center, the Round Reading Room, one of the best libraries in the world, towered with a large copper dome. At high altitude, all two acres were covered with huge vaults designed by Norman Foster, creating the largest covered area in Europe.

Unlocking the door, Harry ducked into the belly of the courtyard. As in the buildings of the museum, darkness reigned here. Somewhere high above, rain drummed on glass floors. Nevertheless, Harry's footsteps echoed in the void. The lightning spear tore through the sky again. For one dazzling instant, the glass roof, divided into thousands of triangular panels, lit up.

The Sand Devil by James Rollins is the first in the Sigma Squad series. This is a very rich novel that will make you plunge not only into the adventures of the heroes, but also into history and archeology.

Millionaire and archaeologist Reginald Kensington built a gallery twenty years ago to display objects found in the Arabian Desert city of Ubar. Once he went on another trip and disappeared without a trace.

An explosion occurs in a gallery built by a missing archaeologist. A lot of people were involved to find out the reasons. As a result of the examination, an unusual object was found inside a statue made of stone - it was a heart made of metal, but in its structure it was exactly the same as a human. Kensington's daughter heads out into the desert to find out what happened to her father twenty years ago. But the explosion attracted the attention of those who do not mind taking advantage of ancient treasures and the magical power hidden in them.

Agent Paintre Crow must travel to the desert to find out the truth. Its main mission is to preserve scientific discoveries that can be harmful if they fall into the hands of villains. He is a great fit for this role because he is young, strong, intelligent and fearless. A group of archaeologists is sent with him to help discover the secrets hidden in manuscripts from time immemorial.

Thus, a previously lost, ancient city becomes a destination for many people. Some seek to keep his secrets, others - to use for their own purposes. The journey is very dangerous and full of surprises.

The novel is written in a very interesting way, the actions do not stop throughout the entire narrative, which fascinates and does not let you come off. The book will appeal to everyone who likes to read about adventure, historical research and excavations, who wants to learn ancient secrets with a certain amount of mysticism.

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