Unlike the other books I have read by this author, this book is aimed at adults (adult characters.) As for subject matter, I think his books for teens have pretty adult subject matter (in terms of difficult to understand scientific and sci-fi concepts) and this would also challenge anyone's imagination. Suppose that Betelgeuse (our closest star) goes nova with most of that energy aimed directly at earth. What would it do to Earth? And suppose a scavenger race from another planet knows this will happen and lies in wait until the danger is over to take what they can from our planet in the way of slaves and food. The manner it is told in--from the viewpoints of several different people with different talents--makes this wonderfully absorbing.
I have now started Map of Bones by James Rollins. I have just discovered this is #2 of the
Sigma Force series. An attack on a German cathedral during midnight mass results in all but one in attendance dead, the golden reliquary opened and the bones of the magi (the three kings that visited the Christ child) gone. The gold of the reliquary is left behind. Thus starts a race through Europe to stop the perpetrators, but also to learn why they did this. The book has been compared to The DaVinci Code, and I can tell why. Good characters.
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