When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma force. For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedrals golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings.Commander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic f When a group of parishioners is burned to death in a German cathedral, the US sends in Sigma force. For this tragedy is more than a case of arson - someone has stolen the priceless treasure stored in the cathedrals golden reliquary: the bones of the biblical Three Kings.Commander Gray Pierce leads a team on the hunt for the Royal Dragon Court, a clandestine aristocratic fraternity of alchemists that dates back to the Middle Ages and seeks to establish a new world order using the mystical bones. Pierce and his team follow a trail that leads from Europes Gothic cathedrals through the remnants of the seven wonders of the ancient world to a mystical place where science and religion unite to unleash a threat not seen since the beginning of time itself... About The Author: About the Author James Rollins was born in 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his childhood in Canada and the midwest along with his three brothers and three sisters. Rollins attended the University of Missouri, where he received a Ph. D. in veterinary medicine in 1985. After graduation, Rollins moved to Sacramento, California and started his veterinary practice there. His first novel, Subterranean, became a New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the Sigma Force novels, Excavation, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Jake Ransom and the Skull Kings Shadow.