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When a remote Utah research base emits a frantic cry followed by the command "Kill us all!", investigators arrive to find every living thing within a fifty‑mile radius dead and the land sterile. Commander Gray‑Pierce and his squad must unlock a threat rooted in the past—when Antarctica was green and Earth teetered on the edge of annihilation. Using clues from an ancient map recovered from the lost Library of Alexandria, they investigate a lost continent and a new, deadly force buried beneath centuries of ice.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Adventure Fiction/Action Adventure
Authors: James Rollins
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