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Crucible
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- Narrated by: Christian Baskous
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown, she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact—one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe
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High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown.
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- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
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To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost—in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world they’ve only known in stories.
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A master at combining heart-stopping suspense and scientific intrigue, New York Times best-selling author James Rollins returns with a thrilling adventure like no other--a shocking story of cruel genetic experiments done in the name of national security and, most disturbing of all, tied to a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
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Sandstorm
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An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.
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- Written by: James Rollins
- Narrated by: James Rollins, Nicola Barber
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown, she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact—one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe
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4 out of 5 stars
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Annoying Narrator
- By E. A. Curran on 2023-08-13
Written by: James Rollins
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Excavation
- Written by: James Rollins
- Narrated by: John Meagher
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good but the same
- By Reza Evol on 2021-06-17
Written by: James Rollins
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Deep Fathom
- Written by: James Rollins
- Narrated by: John Meagher
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Ex-Navy SEAL Jack Kirkland surfaces from an aborted underwater salvage mission to find the Earth burning. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America’s president on board. Now, with the US on the narrow brink of a nuclear apocalypse, Kirkland must pilot his oceangoing exploration ship, Deep Fathom, on a desperate mission miles below the ocean’s surface.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- By Dave Gravel on 2023-04-09
Written by: James Rollins
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The Cradle of Ice
- Moon Fall, Book 2
- Written by: James Rollins
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 26 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might unleash. Armies wage war around them. For each step has come with a cost—in blood, in loss, in heartbreak. Now, they must split, traveling into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world they’ve only known in stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cannot Wait for the next book
- By Dallymack on 2023-04-08
Written by: James Rollins
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Altar of Eden
- A Novel
- Written by: James Rollins
- Narrated by: Paula Christensen
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
A master at combining heart-stopping suspense and scientific intrigue, New York Times best-selling author James Rollins returns with a thrilling adventure like no other--a shocking story of cruel genetic experiments done in the name of national security and, most disturbing of all, tied to a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
Written by: James Rollins
Publisher's Summary
In the race to save one of their own, Sigma Force must wrestle with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in this mind-expanding adventure from the number-one New York Times best-selling author, told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action.
Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend’s wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semicomatose state and cannot speak - until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to “unlock” her mind long enough to ask a few questions.
What Pierce learns from Kat sets Sigma Force on a frantic quest for answers that are connected to mysteries reaching back to the Spanish Inquisition and to one of the most reviled and blood-soaked books in human history - a Medieval text known as the Malleus Maleficarum, the Hammer of Witches. What they uncover hidden deep in the past will reveal a frightening truth in the present and a future on the brink of annihilation and force them to confront the ultimate question: What does it mean to have a soul?
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- Dergo
- 2019-04-27
Terrible narration
Please stop using this narrator. Completely ruins the book. Clearly the narrator, have not pre-read the book prior to recording. Intonation is completely wrong in places. Accents sometimes mixed. Sudden drops in voice level , bordering on whispering cause you to miss some of the story parts. Sudden changes in tempo, in not always appropriate places. Please use another narrator. Rollins books are huge best sellers. Please stop diminishing their value by using such mediocre narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-08-17
would not recommend this one
very hard to listen to. narration was either very loud or extremely quiet. there was no way to have a constant volume setting. many times narration would stop, like at the end of a sentence, but when it started up again, the sentence continued. made things difficult to follow. overall very disappointed. not sure I want to risk another purchase
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- P-L desrochers
- 2022-07-11
exactly what you'd expect from JR
like all sigma novels, once you pop, the fun don't stop! couldn't put it down!
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- shayne nilsson
- 2021-04-15
my favourite so far!!
this was a fantastic book, I couldn't stop listening!! it was action packed and made you think!! highly recommended! if there are any James Rollins books you wamt to start, then this is the one!!
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- Jamie F
- 2021-03-31
A.I. oh my
great listen, love that these books impart knowledge and inspire curiosity about whatever topic Rollins is interested in that time. Definitely recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-08-04
The worst James Rollins book in the Sigma series!
I could not get onto this novel from the get to. The story line was not compelling for me. The AI aspect did not interest me at all. I did not really bond with any of the characters that were not part of Sigma Force. The action was slow and limited. Not the usual suspense and pacing that I have loved in all of his novels. And don’t get me started on the narrator..... ewww. I stopped listening for weeks and had to relished because I forgot what I had listened to. I sped up the narration just to get though it more quickly. Hoping the next novel is way better!!
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- Rick B
- 2019-08-18
Good Story, Hard to Listen!
I enjoyed the story line. I felt I learned things about AI that I didn’t know before. However, the narrator dropped his voice in many places, and then was screaming in others. It was dangerous listening in the car as I was constantly turning the volume up to hear, and then down to protect my ears. Surely, when producing an audio book there is some quality control that guarantees consistency in the listening experience. I didn’t find the performance in this audiobook to be consistently of high quality. Sorry to say.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-03-28
Great fictional and non fictional story on AI
this is a great story based on the latest advancement made in the development of artificial intelligence.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-03-11
Get Ready, it's Coming!
If you are brave enough to learn something about the evolution of artificial intelligence, robotics, and medical practices that sound like sci fi, then read this book. The technical side is brilliant, the story itself no so much. It's a loose knit string of events so implausable it almost throws the science into no-way land.
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- Tania C Roy
- 2019-03-03
Narrator is terrible IMO
I have been reading the sigma force for years and to reflect Gray’s voice as it was just didn’t fit. It was so wrong I had trouble finishing the book. If they continue to use this narrator this will be the last book from this series I will purchase.
The story is good as the characters continue to develop.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-02-04
Volume
Story was great. Performance was good but constantly going from shouting to whispering a problem. I had to adjust the volume continuously.
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- Michael J. Herzog
- 2019-01-27
Thriller? Maybe a Third of One
There were parts of this story that I found exciting enough to carry me through. Unfortunately, these parts were only about 1/3 of the story. There are a lot of subplots and side-diversions that drag on. The reader Christian Baskous, is fine. I think this may be the first book I've had where he is the narrator. I think under other circumstances, I would enjoy his reading. I just found this book to be too boring to push through. This is just my opinion. I'm kind of stuck in a thriller-only mode these days. If every page isn't burning or exploding, I can't do it.
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- mike
- 2019-03-11
this is the most boring book I have ever purchase
this is not worth the time. i listen to all of his books but this one was awful.
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- Clarie DeWayne
- 2019-01-24
Not Sci Fi, but would have been 20 years ago
An intriguing dilemma for Sigma Force and the real world, complete with cutting edge technology, history and plenty of intrigue from secret societies and evildoers. While characters from previous books are included, this book can stand alone outside of the series.
The narrator is annoying at times, as if his voice is more important than the story he's reading.
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- Mike Jeffery
- 2019-01-26
Wow....wow.....wow
I'm rarely ever really scared by a story, but this one has me SERIOUSLY spooked. So good.
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- rosella
- 2019-01-23
and he scores again
Mr Rollins has the perfect way of combining action with detailed science and history. I had a hard time putting this one aside.
I would add that the narrative goes a long way in making this happen .
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- L. Johnson
- 2020-04-05
Unpleasant to the ears
I LOVE James Rollins and have all his books but this is the first audiobook of his work I’ve had - the narrator is terrible and SUPER annoying. Maybe everyone else loves him, this may just be me - but it is nails on a chalkboard for me. I’m gonna finish it just because I love Rollins and I’m stuck inside during the quarantine, but I’m very disappointed in the reading. Listen closely to the sample before you purchase
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- j. simmons
- 2019-01-25
yet again another gem from mr. Rollins
this book is thought provoking and suspenseful! yet another gem from mr. Rollins. can't wait for his next one!
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- Mark Irons
- 2019-05-28
Reader was a bit melodramatic for me
The reader often got in the way of an interesting story. He often overemphasized parts that need not have been and at other times, read some very intense parts without any emphasis at all. It was distracting and unnecessary.
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- Marisia Robus
- 2020-01-05
Did not enjoy anything
I have enjoyed James Rollins in the past, but this was utter nonsense. Witches, AI ......
No thanks. You have now lost me as a reader. Narrator also poor, to get through it I listened at 2x speed
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