All I do with my veterinary degree now is remove genitalia. Rollins found the authors of the Doc Savage series inspirational as a youth and acquired an extensive collection of the popular s and s pulp magazine stories. He also enjoyed L. Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia. Additionally, he was inspired by Jules Verne and H. Wells , [4] whose works he used as a springboard for creating similar contemporary novels filled with what he refers to as "the three M's of fiction: Czajkowski sold his first novel, Witch Fire , under the pen name James Clemens, through Terry Brooks ' publisher.
Brooks had been one of the judges for a writing contest at the Maui Writers' Conference in Maui , Hawaii , [5] in which James had entered a manuscript he had recently completed. Beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders—and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists, led by archaeologist Ashley Carter, has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds. But they are not the first to venture here—and those they follow did not return.
There are mysteries here older than humanity and revelations that could change the world. But there are also things that should not be disturbed—and a devastating truth that could doom Ashley and the expedition: The caverns are inhabited by an entire subterranean ecosystem of primitive mammals—some intelligent, others savage, all beyond the reach of today's knowledge. In Peru , low in the Andes , Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years.
Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. But where this perilous journey ends—in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis—something else is waiting for Sam Conklin and his exploratory party. A thing created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Four years ago, all contact with a U.
Now, one of its members staggers into a Christian mission but dies within hours. Two years before the expedition, while in Iraq, the CIA operative's left arm was amputated at the shoulder. Photographs of the corpse and fingerprints reveal that the arm has grown back perfectly. Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the United States CIA establishes a special team to return to this impenetrable secret world of unforeseen perils and to follow the dead man's trail.
On arrival, they enlist Nathan Rand, the son of the lost researchers' team leader. A mysterious plague, that threatens the Earth's entire population, leads back to Gerald Clark. This means the lost expedition's destination, which holds the key to the cure, must be discovered at any cost. But the nightmare that awaits Rand and his team of scientists and seasoned U. Army Rangers dwarfs any danger they may have anticipated. After an Alaskan game warden rescues a man from a crashed plane and saves him from subsequent attack by foreign soldiers, his ex-wife's piloting skills take them all to the man's intended destination, a US research base on the Arctic ice, set up following the discovery by advanced ice-penetrating sonar of a derelict Russian scientific base buried within a massive iceberg, Ice Station Grendel, where the personnel all died decades earlier.
A Russian submarine carrying the son of the station's former commander also approaches, ostensibly to retrieve the bodies found by the Americans. Both sides know the station contains vastly important scientific secrets, worth fighting for, but neither side knows quite how the other will fight, or how Grendel itself will complicate matters. In an atmosphere of mistrust and fear, the Alaskans and the scientist overseeing the sonar project have unexpected roles to play, while in the midst of terror, unexpected allies, and betrayals, neither side can afford to lose.
In , Random House commissioned Rollins to write the novelization of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , the eponymous, American adventure science fiction film. The story starts outside the Baghdad Zoo immediately after the Battle of Baghdad After being decimated during the invasion of Iraq , the floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations.
However, this crime hides a deeper secret. The crew is missing, but the boat holds a live cargo: Initially, Polk assumes it is part of a black market smuggling racket. Then she discovers disturbing deformities that make no sense. Also, the animals all share disturbingly heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and the threat it poses, Polk must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her, now an agent with the CBP.
The chief operatives in SIGMA combine highly trained military skills with specialized scientific knowledge. The Force's purpose is to investigate and to secure sensitive information that could be a threat to the United States; its functions are a combination of counter-terrorism , research , and covert operations. These novels are intended to be read in chronological order. Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. Earthquakes and hellfire rock the globe. Air Force One has vanished from the skies with America's president on board.
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This book was not originally part of the SIGMA Force series, but its characters were frequently featured in the series' later novels. Meanwhile, in the British Museum , a private collection is destroyed; the cause can not be explained. Their quest takes them into the Arabian Desert , to a long-buried threat that may bring about the end of the balance of power. The main character, Crowe, is intelligent, fearless, resourceful, and romantic. The magi brought gold, frankincense , and myrrh to the Christ child; their bones may bring destruction to the world, if they are allowed to remain in the hands of the thieves who stole them, for these bones may not be bones at all.
This novel features Dr. Lisa Cummings first introduced in Deep Fathom , who begins a relationship with one of the team. The outbreak's source and the key to the cure are based on the Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat. The book also marks the apparent death of Dr.
Kowalski acts as Gray Pierce's sidekick in this and following stories. Pierce's parents are captured and held hostage by sadistic Guild operatives Annishen and Amen Nasser. Sigma Force battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a bioengineering project that could bring about the extinction of humankind.
An international think-tank of scientists discover a way to bioengineer autistic children who show savant talents, in the hope of creating a world prophet who can be manipulated to create a new era of global peace on their terms. The Doomsday Key starts with three murders on three different continents. Each shares a puzzling, hideous disfigurement, but otherwise no other obvious connection.
A clue links the father of one victim, an influential U. Crowe takes part of the team to Oslo , while an unexpected phone call from a traumatized Rachel Verona has Grayson rushing all over Europe, ending up in a high-security prison in France. Crowe and his team fly over the Arctic Circle to land in Spitzbergen.
Ultimately, it is revealed that the characters are dealing with an ancient, fungal parasite that was discovered and used first by the Egyptians and then, later, by eleventh century Celts and Druids as a bio-weapon. In this short story "Seichan is ripped out of the Sigma series for an adventure all her own".
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She and a young urban explorer , who has tattooed on his body a map of the Catacombs of Paris , awaken in a Paris hotel after having been kidnapped and drugged, to find deadly electronic collars fastened around their necks. They are tasked to rescue the kidnapper's son, "who has fallen under the sway of the nefarious leader of an apocalyptic cult".
The trail leads them into "the dark necropolis beneath the City of Lights". Seichan and her guide must battle the clock, as the cult leader has wired the catacombs with bombs. This short story includes a sneak peek at the first 70 pages of The Devil Colony , in which a clue unlocked by the skeleton key plays a key role. The team attempts to track down a lost map, journeying — among various farflung places — to Fort Knox and the grave of Meriwether Lewis.
Rollins refers to secret codes used by Thomas Jefferson and Lewis. The coded message leads Crowe to John Trumbull 's painting depicting the presentation of The Declaration of Independence. In the medieval heart of Budapest , Captain Tucker Wayne and his war dog, Kane, rescue a mysterious woman fleeing three armed men.
They are after the secret she holds, which will unlock a terrible treasure steeped in blood and treachery, tied to a crime going back to the fall of Nazi Germany and a heritage of suffering and pain that reaches out from the past to wreak havoc today. In a final showdown, truths are unearthed and treasures exposed. This "short story exclusive" includes a sneak peek at the opening chapters of Bloodline , in which further exploits of Tucker and Kane are revealed.
The president's daughter is kidnapped by mysterious doctors who seek her baby. President Gant's family is revealed to be a driving force behind the Guild, with their bloodline stretching back for centuries. Jack Kirkland, from the novel Deep Fathom , makes an appearance. Additionally, Lady Kensington, from Sandstorm , is mentioned. The novel deals with the quest for immortality , and with nanotechnology and microengineering.
The Vatican receives a package containing the skull of Genghis Khan , along with a book wrapped in his skin, leading the team to Mongolia. All the while a nearing comet interferes with the imagery of an orbital satellite, causing it to show an image of America's Eastern Seaboard in flaming ruins. The 6th Extinction details the SIGMA team's fight against a geneticist with a nefarious agenda for handling the extinction of species. The team travels from California, near Yosemite National Park , to the tepuis of the northern Amazon rainforest , and to the ice caves of Antarctica.
To rescue a biologist trapped in the National Museum of Natural History and to discover the true intent behind an assault that grows bolder and bloodier by the minute, Sigma Force must unleash its most headstrong operative —Joe Kowalski. Their tombs were built near one another and Philolaus' tomb points toward the Corinthian country, while Diocles' faces away. In BC, polemarch Cypselus obtained an oracle from Delphi which he interpreted to mean that he should rule the city. Cypselus or Kypselos Greek: From — BC, he removed the Bacchiad aristocracy from power and ruled for three decades.
He built temples to Apollo and Poseidon in BC. Aristotle reports that "Cypselus of Corinth had made a vow that if he became master of the city, he would offer to Zeus the entire property of the Corinthians. Accordingly, he commanded them to make a return of their possessions. The city sent forth colonists to found new settlements in the 7th century BC, under the rule of Cypselus r. Corinth was also one of the nine Greek sponsor-cities to found the colony of Naukratis in Ancient Egypt , founded to accommodate the increasing trade volume between the Greek world and pharaonic Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Psammetichus I of the 26th dynasty.
Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings , with increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures. Corinth led the way as the richest archaic polis. Often the tyrants calmed the populace by upholding existing laws and customs and strict conservatism in cult practices.
A cult of personality naturally substituted for the divine right of the former legitimate royal house, as it did in Renaissance Italy. He was a member of the Bacchiad kin and usurped the power in archaic matriarchal right of his mother. However, the newborn smiled at each of the men sent to kill him, and none of them could bear to strike the blow. Labda then hid the baby in a chest, [17] and the men could not find him once they had composed themselves and returned to kill him. Compare the infancy of Perseus. The ivory chest of Cypselus was richly worked and adorned with gold.
It was a votive offering at Olympia , where Pausanias gave it a minute description in his 2nd century AD travel guide. Cypselus grew up and fulfilled the prophecy. Corinth had been involved in wars with Argos and Corcyra , and the Corinthians were unhappy with their rulers. Cypselus was polemarch at the time around BC , the archon in charge of the military, and he used his influence with the soldiers to expel the king.
He also expelled his other enemies, but allowed them to set up colonies in northwestern Greece. He also increased trade with the colonies in Italy and Sicily. He was a popular ruler and, unlike many later tyrants, he did not need a bodyguard and died a natural death. He ruled for thirty years and was succeeded as tyrant by his son Periander in BC.
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Periander brought Corcyra to order in BC. Periander was considered one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He was the first to attempt to cut across the Isthmus to create a seaway between the Corinthian and the Saronic Gulfs. He abandoned the venture due to the extreme technical difficulties that he met, but he created the Diolkos instead a stone-built overland ramp.
The era of the Cypselids was Corinth's golden age, and ended with Periander's nephew Psammetichus , named after the hellenophile Egyptian Pharaoh Psammetichus I see above. Periander killed his wife Melissa.
His son Lycopron found out and shunned him, and Periander exiled the son to Corcyra. The Corcyreans heard about this and killed Lycophron to keep away Periander. Corinth mediated between Athens and Thebes. Athenians and Corinthians entreated Spartans not to harm Athens by restoring the tyrant.
Just before the classical period, according to Thucydides , the Corinthians developed the trireme which became the standard warship of the Mediterranean until the late Roman period. Corinth fought the first naval battle on record against the Hellenic city of Corcyra. In classical times , Corinth rivaled Athens and Thebes in wealth, based on the Isthmian traffic and trade.
Until the mid-6th century, Corinth was a major exporter of black-figure pottery to city-states around the Greek world, later losing their market to Athenian artisans. In classical times and earlier, Corinth had a temple of Aphrodite , the goddess of love, employing some thousand hetairas temple prostitutes see also Temple prostitution in Corinth. The city was renowned for these temple prostitutes, who served the wealthy merchants and the powerful officials who frequented the city.
Lais , the most famous hetaira, was said to charge tremendous fees for her extraordinary favours. Referring to the city's exorbitant luxuries, Horace is quoted as saying: Corinth was also the host of the Isthmian Games. During this era, Corinthians developed the Corinthian order , the third main style of classical architecture after the Doric and the Ionic.
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The Corinthian order was the most complicated of the three, showing the city's wealth and the luxurious lifestyle, while the Doric order evoked the rigorous simplicity of the Spartans, and the Ionic was a harmonious balance between these two following the cosmopolitan philosophy of Ionians like the Athenians. The city had two main ports: Both ports had docks for the city's large navy.
During the years — BC, the Conference at the Isthmus of Corinth following conferences at Sparta established the Hellenic League, which allied under the Spartans to fight the war against Persia. The city was a major participant in the Persian Wars, sending soldiers to defend Thermopylae [29] and supplying forty warships for the Battle of Salamis under Adeimantos and 5, hoplites with their characteristic Corinthian helmets [ citation needed ] in the following Battle of Plataea.
The Greeks obtained the surrender of Theban collaborators with the Persians. Pausanias took them to Corinth where they were put to death. Following the Battle of Thermopylae and the subsequent Battle of Artemisium , which resulted in the captures of Euboea , Boeotia , and Attica , [31] the Greco-Persian Wars were at a point where now most of mainland Greece to the north of the Isthmus of Corinth had been overrun. Herodotus, who was believed to dislike the Corinthians, mentions that they were considered the second best fighters after the Athenians.
Three Syracusan generals went to Corinth seeking allies against Athenian invasion. They also sent a group to Lacedaemon to rouse Spartan assistance. After a convincing speech from the Athenian renegade Alcibiades , the Spartans agreed to send troops to aid the Sicilians. Demosthenes later used this history in a plea for magnanimous statecraft, noting that the Athenians of yesteryear had had good reason to hate the Corinthians and Thebans for their conduct during the Peloponnesian War, [39] yet they bore no malice whatever.
As an example of facing danger with knowledge, Aristotle used the example of the Argives who were forced to confront the Spartans in the battle at the Long Walls of Corinth in BC. This failed when Corinth, Phlius and Epidaurus allied with Boeotia. Demosthenes recounts how Athens had fought the Spartans in a great battle near Corinth. The city decided not to harbor the defeated Athenian troops, but instead sent heralds to the Spartans. But the Corinthian heralds opened their gates to the defeated Athenians and saved them. These conflicts further weakened the city-states of the Peloponnese and set the stage for the conquests of Philip II of Macedon.
He noted the importance of a citizen army as opposed to a mercenary force, citing the mercenaries of Corinth who fought alongside citizens and defeated the Spartans. Philip was named hegemon of the League. During the Hellenistic period , Corinth, like many other Greece cities, never quite had autonomy. Under the successors of Alexander the Great , Greece was contested ground, and Corinth was occasionally the battleground for contests between the Antigonids , based in Macedonia , and other Hellenistic powers.
However, the city was recaptured by Demetrius in BC. Corinth remained under Antigonid control for half a century. The Macedonian rule was short-lived. In BC, Aratus of Sicyon , using a surprise attack, captured the fortress of Acrocorinth and convinced the citizenship to join the Achaean League. Thanks to an alliance agreement with Aratus, the Macedonians recovered Corinth once again in BC; but, after the Roman intervention in BC, the city was permanently brought into the Achaean League.
Under the leadership of Philopoemen , the Achaeans went on to take control of the entire Peloponnesus and made Corinth the capital of their confederation. In BC, Rome declared war on the Achaean League and, after victories over league forces in the summer of that year, the Romans under Lucius Mummius besieged and captured Corinth.
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When he entered the city, Mummius killed all the men and sold the women and children into slavery before burning the city, for which he was given the cognomen Achaicus as the conqueror of the Achaean League. At this time, an amphitheatre was built. It had a large [49] mixed population of Romans, Greeks, and Jews. The city was an important locus for activities of the imperial cult , and both Temple E [50] and the Julian Basilica [51] have been suggested as locations of imperial cult activity. Corinth is mentioned many times in the New Testament , largely in connection with Paul the Apostle's mission there , testifying to the success of Caesar's refounding of the city.
Traditionally, the Church of Corinth is believed to have been founded by Paul, making it an Apostolic See. The apostle Paul first visited the city in AD 49 or 50, when Gallio , the brother of Seneca , was proconsul of Achaia. Here he first became acquainted with Priscilla and Aquila with whom he later traveled. They worked here together as tentmakers from which is derived the modern Christian concept of tentmaking , and regularly attended the synagogue.
This event provides a secure date for the book of the Acts of the Apostles within the Bible. Silas and Timothy rejoined Paul here, having last seen him in Berea Acts Paul wrote at least two epistles to the Christian church, the First Epistle to the Corinthians written from Ephesus and the Second Epistle to the Corinthians written from Macedonia. The first Epistle occasionally reflects the conflict between the thriving Christian church and the surrounding community.
Some scholars believe that Paul visited Corinth for an intermediate "painful visit" see 2 Corinthians 2: After writing the second epistle, he stayed in Corinth for about three months [Acts Based on clues within the Corinthian epistles themselves, some scholars have concluded that Paul wrote possibly as many as four epistles to the church at Corinth. The lost letters would probably represent the very first letter that Paul wrote to the Corinthians and the third one, and so the First and Second Letters of the canon would be the second and the fourth if four were written.
Many scholars think that the third one known as the "letter of the tears"; see 2 Cor 2: This letter is not to be confused with the so-called " Third Epistle to the Corinthians ", which is a pseudepigraphical letter written many years after the death of Paul. There are speculations from Bruce Winter that the Jewish access to their own food in Corinth was disallowed after Paul's departure. By this theory, Paul had instructed Christian Gentiles to maintain Jewish access to food according to their dietary laws.
This speculation is contested by Rudolph who argues that there is no evidence to support this theory. He instead argues that Paul had desired the Gentile Christians to remain assimilated within their Gentile communities and not adopt Jewish dietary procedures. The city was largely destroyed in the earthquakes of AD and AD , followed by Alaric 's invasion in The city was rebuilt after these disasters on a monumental scale, but covered a much smaller area than previously. Four churches were located in the city proper, another on the citadel of the Acrocorinth , and a monumental basilica at the port of Lechaion.
During the reign of Emperor Justinian I — , a large stone wall was erected from the Saronic to the Corinthian gulfs, protecting the city and the Peloponnese peninsula from the barbarian invasions from the north. Corinth declined from the 6th century on, and may even have fallen to barbarian invaders in the early 7th century.