Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin. As Commander Gray Pierce investigates, he is soon caught up in a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany - and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin. As Commander Gray Pierce investigates, he is soon caught up in a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany - and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal. As Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor, begins to investigate reported atrocities at the monastery, she is suddenly the target of an assassin. Her only ally is Painter Crowe, director of SIGMA Force, now undercover - and already showing signs of the baffling malady destroying the minds of the monks. Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa - and a world in jeopardy . . . 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.