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NEW FROM JAMES ROLLINS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ONE-DAY LAYDOWN AUGUST 12, 2014 THE 6TH EXTINCTION A 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. BY THE NUMBERS Has appeared on 4.2 MILLION SIGMAs, and 2.5 MILLION Bestseller list non SIGMA series books IN PRINT 27 TIMES Published in MORE THAN Published in 75 COUNTRIES 34 LANGUAGES 86,487 41,700 Facebook Fans Tw it ter Followers continents visited 3,544 (Antarctica is still pending) Goodreads fans 6 Number of dogs James Rollins has (Penny, Duncan and Echo) Number of buses 3 1with his picture on it THE RISE OF JAMES ROLLINS ROAD MAP 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. JUNE 2004 James Rollins launches the SIGMA series with Sandstorm. APRIL 2007 James Rollins is tapped to write the novelization of NOVEMBER 2010 James Rollins embarks Indiana Jones And The on a USO trip with fellow thriller writers to Iraq and Kingdom Of The Crystal Afghanistan. There he is inspired by the military Skull by Lucasfilm working dogs and a former fellow veterinarian, studios. who now works with the veterinary corps in Iraq, to create the characters of Tucker Wayne and his military dog Kane. 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. RIGHT PAGE 2 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 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. RIGHT PAGE 2: BACK LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 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 PRAISE FOR JAMES ROLLINS AND HIS SIGMA SERIES “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 LEFT PAGE 2: BACK SIDE PRAISE FOR JAMES ROLLINS AND HIS SIGMA SERIES “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 —SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS Rollins. Action-packed storytelling.” —SACRAMENTO BEE “ROLLINS GETS BETTER WITH EACH BOOK, and his position at the top of this “The MODERN MASTER of the action thriller.” –PROVIDENCE JOURNAL particular subgenre remains unshaken.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “HIS BOOKS HAVE EVERYTHING…yet it works, because Rollins is a master of controlled chaos.” —FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM “TOTALLY ADDICTIVE…” FACT OR FICTION BEHIND THE BOOKS FACTFICTION FACTFICTION ne of the things that makes James Rollins’ novels so utterly compelling—and so FACTFICTION FACTFICTION Ocompletely unique— is the way he uncovers unsolved historical and religious mys- FACTFICTION FACTFICTION teries from our past and cutting edge scientific theories and combines them into a FACTFICTION FACTFICTION seamless thriller narrative. Fans say they feel smarter after reading a Rollins novel, FACTFICTION FACTFICTION and that is what transforms a fun, exciting read into a provocative and exceptional one. FACTFICTION FACTFICTION And Rollins is exceptional. FACTFICTION FACTFICTION FACTFICTION FACTFICTION At the end of each book, Rollins carefully lays out what details in his novels are factual FACTFICTION FACTFICTION or based on fact.