Giveaway - The Eye of God - James Rollins

Thanks to the great folks at Harper Collins, I have THREE mass market copies James Rollins' book The Eye of God (releasing today!) to giveaway! Simply leave a comment to be entered. Open to US only. No P.O. boxes please.

 Ends February 16/14.

 

"A comet is set on a collision course with Earth,

An ancient prophecy about the end of time is hidden within a lost gospel,

The only thing that can save humanity from certain destruction is…

THE EYE OF GOD"

"We have always been fascinated by apocalyptic themes—to learn how the world might end, how we might (or might not) survive the next global threat. In each of his bestsellers, James Rollins weaves hidden facts, startling secrets, and amazing yet plausible circumstances to craft a story unlike any other.　

THE EYE OF GOD is James Rollins’ next in his series featuring Sigma Force—an elite and covert arm of the Department of Defense’s DARPA unit—which reveals an apocalyptic vision of the day after tomorrow, of a future predicted by the distant past, of a world doomed to burn.

THE EYE OF GOD finds Sigma Force on the hunt for a crashed U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia. The last blurry image from the falling satellite displayed the eastern seaboard of the United States smoldering and in utter ruin.

At the same time, a mysterious package arrives at the Vatican containing two artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA confirms they both came from a single body— the long-dead Mongol king, Genghis Khan. It is up to Commander Gray Pierce, aided by a pair of Vatican historians, to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the very roots of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the true fate of humanity.'

Read an excerpt of The Eye of God.

JAMES ROLLINS is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers, translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the "top crowd pleasers" (New York Times) and one of the "hottest summer reads" (People Magazine). In each novel, acclaimed for its originality, Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets--and he does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning insight.

Q and A with James Rollins:

In The Eye of God, you take your readers to some exciting and exotic locales: Macau, Mongolia, North Korea. What drew you to set parts of the book in those locations?

I personally love to travel to remote corners of the world, to explore those lost edges or seldom traveled landscapes. I also love to ask locals odd questions ("Tell me something no one knows about this place." "What is a mystery left unsolved here?"). It is from such journeys and questions that many of my stories begin. During my travels to Macau, I was struck by its strange mix of European colonialism, Chinese history, and Las-Vegas glitz. And I knew I always wanted to set a story in North Korea and interviewed several people who had firsthand accounts of the strange "ghost town"-like atmosphere of its capital city. And it was the country’s rich history that drew me to Mongolia, with its ties to Genghis Khan.

You raise a historical mystery in The Eye of God, one concerning the apostle, St. Thomas, how this apostle may have traveled to China. You also reveal a possible connection between the Chinese language and Biblical stories. How much of all that is true?

It’s fairly accepted that St. Thomas traveled to India, but there remains some intriguing speculation that his journeys may have taken him as far as China, maybe even Japan. In the book, I also demonstrate a strange connection between the Chinese language and its odd correlation to Biblical stories. All of this is based on real information - though I leave it to the readers to decide if such correlations are mere coincidences or in fact valid, hinting at some ancient lost knowledge of the Book of Genesis.

As with all of your books, history is only half the story. You love raising interesting bits of science. In The Eye of God, you introduce the concept of "biohacking," of people altering their bodies in strange ways. A new member of Sigma has magnets embedded under his fingertips to add to his "senses." Is this really something that’s going on?

It is indeed. Over a thousand people have had rare-earth magnets implanted at the edges of their fingertips, that vibrate in the presence of electromagnetic fields. It allows them to experience electrical fields in amazing ways. Those I’ve interviewed describe these fields as having texture, shape, rhythms, and even colors. They can sense the flow of electricity through wires, or "feel" a hard drive that is malfunctioning, or even diagnose a misfiring carburetor. It opens up an entirely new way of experiencing the world. And once accustomed to them, it’s apparently hard to go back. Many say they feel blind without them. It definitely is a new world."