The Final Odyssey: A Thriller (Sigma Pressure Novels, 15)

To avoid wasting the world and our future, Sigma Pressure should embark on a harmful odyssey into an historic previous whose horrors are all too current on this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Instances bestselling creator James Rollins that mixes cutting-edge science, historic thriller, mythology, and pulse-pounding motion.

For eons, the town of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer’s Iliad—was believed to be delusion, till archaeologists within the nineteenth century uncovered its historic partitions buried beneath the sands. If Troy was actual, how a lot of Homer’s twin tales of gods and monsters, curses and miracles—The Iliad and The Odyssey—is also true and awaiting discovery?

Within the frozen tundra of Greenland, a gaggle of modern-day researchers hit upon a stunning discover: a medieval ship buried a half-mile under the ice. The ship’s maintain comprises a set of even older artifacts—instruments of battle—courting again to the Bronze Age. Contained in the captain’s cabin is a powerful treasure that’s as priceless as it’s miraculous: a clockwork gold map imbedded with an intricate silver astrolabe. The mechanism was crafted by a gaggle of Muslim inventors—the Banū Mūsā brothers—thought of by many to be the Da Vincis of the Arab world—sensible scientists who impressed Leonardo’s personal work.

As soon as activated, the transferring map traces the trail of Odysseus’s well-known ship because it sailed away from Troy. However the route detours because the map opens to disclose a fiery river resulting in a hidden realm beneath the Mediterranean Sea. It’s the subterranean world of Tartarus, the Greek title for Hell. In mythology, Tartarus was the place the depraved have been punished and the monstrous Titans of outdated, imprisoned.

When phrase of Tartarus spreads—and of the cache of miraculous weapons stated to be hidden there—tensions explode on this unstable area the place Turks battle Kurds, terrorists wage battle, and civilians undergo untold horrors. The phantasmagoric horrors present in Homer’s tales are all too actual—and may very well be unleashed upon the world. Whoever possesses them can use their superior energy to manage the way forward for humanity.

Now, Sigma Pressure should go the place people concern to tread. To forestall a tyrant from igniting a world battle, they have to cross the very gates of Hell.