Black Order: A Novel (Sigma Force Novels)

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Black Order: A Novel (Sigma Force Novels)
James Rollins
Manufacturer: William Morrow
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060763884
Release Date: 2006-06-27

A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.

A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin working for clandestine forces that want the affair buried at any cost. Lisa's only ally is a hidden pilgrim, Painter Crowe -- director of SIGMA Force, an elite command of American scientists and Special Forces operatives -- who is already showing signs of the baffling malady that destroyed the minds of the monks.

Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa -- and a world in jeopardy -- as SIGMA Force races to expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order . . . and alter the destiny of humankind forever.

Combining the historic scope of The Da Vinci Code with the relentless thrills of today's best action novels, James Rollins's Black Order is a classic adventure -- an ingenious and breathtaking tour de force that explodes with revelations . . . while offering a startling new view of our place in the grand scheme of existence.

The information was interesting - the story telling was too spasmodic.......2007-10-10

In "Secret Black Projects Of The New World Order," author Tim Swartz reveals just how some of that "mystery money" is actually spent: to fund military technology light years beyond what the public believes is the actual state-of-the-art as well as to construct underground bases throughout the country that may be designed not only to shelter high ranking members of the government during a nuclear attack, but which may also serve as locations to which they bring unwitting "abductees" being used for government mind control and genetic experimentation.

The book begins with an overview of some of the more recent developments in the creation of spy planes for the US military, much of which still remains highly classified. Swartz provides a wealth of interesting details that chronicle the step-by-step process that has led to the Stealth bomber and the still unofficially acknowledged Aurora. The many twists and turns of governmental disinformation and cover-up efforts are examined, including the fact that UFO hysteria might be used to obscure what is actually quite terrestrial though extremely advanced flight technology. In other words, what are often labeled as UFOs could in fact be the mind-boggling weaponry of our own military.

Other uses for the black project funding are also revealed, among them secret electromagnetic weapons that were tested up and down the eastern seaboard of the US and Canada in the late 70s, resulting in extreme shock waves and power surges that blew apart sections of the houses in the surrounding area. The exact cause of the extreme electromagnetic "booms" was never discovered, but Swartz makes an excellent case for the probable culprit being a secretly funded military test.

"Secret Black Projects Of The New World Order" is a great source of both hard information and intelligent speculation regarding one of the most urgent issues of our time--how our tax dollars are being spent without our knowledge or consent to fund secret military projects that may be designed to enslave us as much as to protect us. (Witness the secret surveillance of civilian members of the population by the ubiquitous black helicopters, which is also covered in the book.) Armed with the material Tim Swartz herein provides, the reader will become better able to guard himself against the lies of the New World Order, which he sadly is also helping to foot the bill for.

This is a serious graphic novel with high ambitions. In a couple of respects it manages brilliantly. The artwork by Enki Bilal is exquisitely nuanced; his line finds dignity and pain in these old faces, and like them his Europe is beautiful and decayed. Author Pierre Christin's story has the satisfying weight of verisimilitude--and thematically he really gets what has to be here for this tale to work: the bitter intercourse of the past and the present.

Flaws? Christin's large, mostly uninteresting cast is populated by Hollywood cut-outs (think a left-wing "Dirty Dozen," bereft of the charm). Though its intricacies and sweep are compelling, the plotting isn't above an occasional cheat. And for a presumed critique of zealotry, the book is maybe too fond of its zealots. That said, there's enough here to recommend The Black Order Brigade as a cautionary tale about the price of belief--and fighting fire with fire. It's just not the dramatic equal of either its social intelligence or its ravishing artwork.

Trust me when the cover says "Helen Dawson is a dedicated doctor ... " it should have said that Helen Dawson is a dim witted, boring, trailer trash character (if there is such a thing in the UK then she would be it) that is about as erotic a bowl of cereal...

The story deals with an oversexed DR who after working at a UK city hospital is transferred to a private instituion that deal with the movie crowd from the USA.

Needless to say it appears ALL the staff is so busy with their sex lives that I'm very glad none of the patients have any real medical need for them to be able to recover from their operations.

Don't waste your hard earned money on this .. as the Dr should have said .. take two asprins and call me in the morning ....

The popular mythology of the SS has a clouded story which is so complicated as to almost defy belief: a tale of intrigue and nepotism, of archeology and Teutonism, of art and symbolism. The story of "Himmler's Black Order" is one of an organization led by a man motivated by the belief that he was the spiritual reincarnation of the Saxon King Heinrich I, founder of the German Reich. It is the story of street fighters and convicted criminals becoming Ministers of State and police commanders; the story of charitable works and mass extermination being administered from the same building; the story of boy generals directing vast heterogeneous armies on devastating campaigns of conquest. Here, indeed, fact is stranger than fiction. This book covers in detail the origins, development and organization of both the Waffen-SS and the Allemeine-SS. The latter has been sorely neglected in post-war literature, yet it was the real body of the SS from which the more famous branches grew. The wide-ranging effects which the SS had on the police, racial policies, German history, education, the economy and public life are all described. Sections are also devoted to uniforms and regalia which were carefully designed to set Himmler's men apart as a new elite in Third Reich society. The SS at war is considered, and a balance struck between the substantial battlefield achievements of the Waffen-SS and the atrocities of SS and police forces in the occupied territories. The little-known story of the Germanic-SS, staffed by foreigners in Western Europe, is also related.