"Fans of Clive Cussler, Steve Berry, and Michael Crichton should...have Rollins on their mandatory reading list."-Booklist ("Starred Review")

Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archaeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, stumbles out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers that someone had begun to mummify the professor's body-while he was still alive.

When his remains are returned to London for further study, alarming news arrives from Egypt. The medical team who had performed the man's autopsy has fallen ill with an unknown disease that is quickly spreading throughout Cairo. Fearing the worst, a colleague of the professor reaches out to Painter Crowe, the director of Sigma Force. It appears that Professor McCabe had vanished into the desert while searching for proof of the ten plagues of Moses. As the pandemic grows, a disturbing question arises.

Are those plagues starting again?

Then a mysterious group of assassins leaves behind a fiery wake of destruction and death, erasing all evidence. Sigma Force turns to the archaeologist's daughter, Jane McCabe, for help. She discovers a puzzling connection to a shocking historical mystery that involves the travels of Mark Twain, the genius of Nikola Tesla, and the adventures of explorer Henry Morton Stanley. Now Sigma Force must confront a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world's children . . . decimating humankind forever.

"[Rollins is] what you might end up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together."-New York Times Book Review on The Bone Labyrinth


「克萊夫･卡斯勒、史帝夫･貝利與麥克･克萊頓的書迷應把羅林斯的書列入他們的必讀清單。」——《書單》雜誌（重點書評）

消失在蘇丹沙漠兩年後，英國考古探險隊長麥卡比教授腳步踉蹌地從滾滾黃沙中出現，他驚惶失措、精神錯亂，還沒來得及說出他所經歷的故事就去世了。屍檢加深了教授的死亡謎團，因為報告結果顯示，有人在他活著的時候，就要將他製成木乃伊。

就在教授屍體送回倫敦做進一步研究時，埃及傳來驚人的消息：驗屍的醫學團隊染上不知名怪病，而這怪病在開羅迅速蔓延。教授的同事擔心會發生最糟的情況，於是求助於西格瑪中隊隊長潘特．克羅維。當初麥卡比教授為了要尋找《出埃及記》中十災的證明，不幸消失在沙漠中。隨著疫情不斷加劇，令人不安的問題浮現。

這些災難會再次出現嗎？

接著，一群神秘刺客進行破壞與暗殺，抹去了所有證據。西格瑪中隊不得不求助於教授的女兒珍妮･麥卡比。珍妮發現近日發生的事件竟與某些驚人的歷史謎團有令人費解的關聯，其中牽涉作家馬克吐溫的旅行、發明家特斯拉的天賦，以及探險家亨利･摩根･史坦利的冒險經歷。現在西格瑪中隊必須面對釋放一連串災難的風險，還可能因此殺死世界上所有的兒童……使人類滅絕。

「如果你將麥克･克萊頓與丹･布朗一同丟進粒子加速器中，你得到的結果就會是羅林斯。」《紐約時報書評》評論《The Bone Labyrinth》。