Adventure Annotation

Author:  James Rollins

Title:  Map of Bones

Genre:  Adventure

Publication Date:  2005

Number of pages:  434

Geographical Settings:  Egypt, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.

Time Period:  Present day and most happened in four days.

Series:  Sigma Force Novel 2

Plot Summary:  The book starts with a prologue  which explains about how the bones of the Magi got to Cologne, Germany.  The Sigma Force is also introduces.  They came to a midnight mass in Monk clothes, in Cologne Germany and killed everyone except one boy.  An American Grayson Pierce leads an effort to find these men with the bones.  He has a love interest, Rachel Verona, a lieutenant.  There are three others in this group, Rachel's Uncle Vigot, a Vatican official, Monk and Kat.  They start at the church in Germany, here the Sigma Force finds them and they nearly get killed.  It is here that they find that the bones are made from gold and this is what killed the people.  They also go to Rome and the Peter's tomb where they find a map.  The map leads them to Alexandria, Egypt and then to France.  The Sigma Force follows them and catches most of them in Egypt, except two.  They all meet back in France, but a few of the Sigma Force people get killed in the water close to Egypt.  The leader of the Sigma Force gets killed in France.  At the end the evil people, the Sigma Force gets stopped and killed.  The hero Grayson get the lady Rachel too.



Appeal:  Pace:  fast-paced

              Story-line:  Plot - driven

              Tone:  Suspenseful

              Writing style:  Compelling.



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