The Eye of God audiobook

James Rollins is one of my favorite authors. When it comes to adventure books he is truly a marvelous writer and he writes books that you hardly can put down until you have finished it. This book is not an exception. All of my favorite characters are back; Crowe, Pierce, Monk, Kowalski, and of course, my absolute favorite Seichan. The world is in danger and they have to save it and doing it they cross the world looking for Genghis Khan's tomb. The pace is fast and the story intriguing, and the ending, well you have to read it yourself...I don’t want to spoil it for you...

AMAZING! The Eye of God by James Rollins is EVERYTHING. Having read all the previous Sigma Force novels as well as all the other Rollins individual adventures I have been highly anticipating this novel. It is by far the best!in the series! Rollins once again takes you on a non-stop full throttle adventure across the globe in a race against time to save the world. Using excellent locations, multiple plot lines, and history, science, technology, and adventure to create a story that is top notch. Having read the previous Sigma novels I have become very attached with the characters that make up the series. Rollins does a wonderful job of continuing to develop these characters and relationships. There are also several plot twist that left me gasping aloud, and stunned by there outcomes. I was on the edge of my seat this entire novel, and commend Mr. Rollins for taking this novel to the next level! I am very excited as well to also have the opportunity to finally meet Mr. Rollins as he will be in Indianapolis on The Eye of God book tour! It will be an honor to meet someone who has increased my thirst for reading and made it a thrill at every page turn! TWO THUMBS UP! Looking forward as always to the next Sigma adventure.

There are several similarities between James Rollins' THE EYE OF GOD and Dan Brown's INFERNO -- most noticeably, both novels are a race against time to save humanity and both are steeped in ancient history with abundant mysteries and exotic locales.I'd suggest however that THE EYE OF GOD succeeds far more than INFERNO for the following reasons: one, the pacing is relentless -- where Brown bogs down with laborious descriptions of artwork, Rollins paints vivid images with sparse prose that allows the story to maintain a full head of steam; two, INFERNO's plot fell apart for me when it became clear that the "bad guy" taunting and leaving clues for the "good guys" was the only way for Brown to move his story forward, which was just dumb, and then he tried to blur the lines between who is really good and bad at the end, and that was even dumber -- Rollins however rips a pretty scary story straight from the headlines, using the threat of NEOs (near earth objects), a comet streaking closer and closer to earth, and high-tech science dealing with dark energy to weave together a scenario that threatens an Armageddon type collision and the end of civilization as we know it; and finally, both these authors are obviously incredibly smart and gifted and do meticulous research, but Dan Brown's writing style always makes me feel like I'm talking to someone who wants me to know how smart he is, whereas (at least in this book) Rollins doesn't let all the research get in the way of the story -- instead it feeds the story and pulls you right along.A couple of minor criticisms: because the threat is from an inanimate object that has no inherently evil intentions, it seemed to me that the author felt he needed a B Story with a real bad guy. So he gives us a North Korean who is up to no good, who gets in the way and tries to kill our heroes ... only he's not doing this because he wants the earth to end, it's just really bad timing for our good guys that with minutes left to save the world this wacko shows up again (and the wacko has no idea what it is the good guys are trying to do, but he's determined to stop them anyway...) and now the good guys have to deal with him AND save the world. To me it was silly. The end of the world due to science was already compelling, the North Korean bad guy weakened the story for me.The second criticism, well ... it's not a big thing, but ask anyone who has traveled internationally to read this book and I think they'd agree that saving the planet in four days when you've got to jet-set all over the world to do it just isn't happening. I get it, this is fiction. We bend the rules. But when the good guys can launch an invasion of Pyongyang and get out in time to travel to Mongolia and they've barely used any of the precious four days they've been given to save the world ... well, it just bugged me, so I mention it here.Overall? It's a fast, fun read, and interspersed with the action there's a number of thought-provoking quotes and some great words of wisdom as well.

James Rollins successfully combines, science, religion, history, and mythology once more. He is the master of the sci-fi archeological thriller. (AKA - the titillating technical tomb tome) The Sigma Force is tasked with saving the world from the destructive effects of dark energy emitted from a passing comet. The key to their mission is linked to the wanderings of St. Thomas and the conquests of Genghis Khan. As with past Sigma novels, Rollins incorporates far-flung and less common locations into his plot. Additionally, he allowed this tale to develop along two story lines that eventually come together in the exciting climax. Without being accused of spoiling the story, I will say that Rollins handles the death of some main (not major) characters with aplomb. The story gripped me from the beginning and kept me from my allotted eight hours of sleep for a few nights. On a more detailed scale, I provide this novel with a 4.75.

I have to admit up front that I've been a fan of James Rollins ever since I read Amazonia many years ago. I have a group of authors that I look forward to picking up their most recent books, even though they are extremely overpriced compared to the indie authors available on Amazon, and James Rollins is one of those. This isn't his best book, but that being said, it's still better than so many authors I've read in recent years. My sign as to how good a book is, is how fast I'm reading it, a good book, like this one is ripped through at a fever pace, a bad book… well that just seems to take forever, I mostly still trudge through it, but I'm not happy about it. I've never read a Rollins book that's been bad, and I think that is mostly due to his incredible sense of pacing. Rollins keeps his chapters short and he hits you hooks right at the end of them that make you keep flipping the pages so you can find out what happens. I go out of my way not to give away too many details of any book because I like to leave the surprises for the reader to enjoy as they discover them. So I won't go into too many details as I say that the only real problem that I had with this books was the fact that too many details and facts were thrown in and in places it bogged down the story a little bit. But only a little bit. Rollins was still able to maintain a constant sense of danger as he guided the reader through some very impossible and wild situations. This book is part of the Sigma series, so many of the characters are very familiar to anyone who's read the rest of the books in the series, but Rollins still finds new ways of throwing in a few surprises. So I would highly suggest this book to other.

** spoiler alert ** Phew, I've been worrying for months who is he gonna kill but at the end, man, he pulled it off beautifully. It all went good with the story and it wasn't as hard to forgive him as i was expecting it to be. Good man, James Rollins has always been a good writer, then he found Sigma and started getting better with every book and now is at a master level. This is how is done. Thank you for the adventure, Mr Rollins.

I have had the great good fortune to have hosted James Rollins twice at our library. I had long been a fan the first time and was a bit nervous to meet him. He was surprisingly funny considering that his novels are fast-paced scientifically serious thrillers. That first time here he mostly talked about his large family and how he became a storyteller. The second time he visited he talked more openly about his research and writing process. Both visits were delightful and made him even more fans here.His latest, The Eye of God, again finds his Sigma Force desperately looking for clues to save the world. In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy—and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity. Rollins does this better than anyone around–the blending of history, science and our world today. I look forward to many more novels from him. (Debbie)

This book, like so many of James Rollins, sucked me down a rabbit's hole I didn't want to leave. Genghis Khan, Atilla the Hun, Quantum Physics, and astronomy: they all collide in this book and make it a book that you don't ever want to put down.

What do Genghis Khan's skull, a message made of human skin and a crashed satellite harnessing dark energy have in common? This adventure of course! So much action and history crammed in with Grayson and Sigma team solving it again!

Cały cykl Sigma Force jest świetny, a "Oko Boga" jest jedną z lepszych, do tej pory przeczytanych przeze mnie jego części.

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James Rollins has made a niche for himself in the currently overcrowded historical fiction field. He not only excels at creating eerily plausible premises based in some form of ancient history infused with a good amount of scientific research but also combines it with the brutal action of a Special Forces novel.Rollins once said at a book signing that he has a ‘magic box’ that he draws his ideas from for each of his novels. As he comes across interesting news or scientific articles he cuts them out and puts them into the box. Then, when he is in need for a new idea to base his next novel on, he shakes up the box and reaches in.It may not actually be that simple --- but James Rollins makes it look that way! His latest Sigma Force Novel is entitled THE EYE OF GOD and presents readers with an end-of-the-world plot that will have them clinging to their seats. Imagine, if you will, that the famous Mongol warrior Genghis Khan may be genetically related to a good portion of the world’s population. Statistics state that 1 in 10 Mongolians and 1 in 200 men around the globe share some genetic make-up with the ancient conqueror. I guess it pays to conquer many countries and have many wives!The Eye of God literally refers to a downed U.S. military research satellite. It is not just important that the satellite be retrieved from where it landed (supposedly, somewhere in the remote wilds of Mongolia) but more urgent is the images that were viewed from it before it crashed. Sigma Force Director Painter Crowe and several other high-ranking U.S. Government officials witnessed a feed from this ill-fated satellite that depicted much of the U.S. Eastern seaboard decimated and in flames --- the apparent victim of a massive meteor strike.As usual, Sigma Force --- led by Gray Pierce --- is split up pursuing different segments of the same assignment. Gray and a small team of colleagues team up with a pair of Vatican historians to discover the actual cause of the Roman Empire’s fall. This pursuit leads them from China --- where they face off with both a highly dangerous criminal Triad as well as other unsavory characters --- and ends up converging with the rest of Sigma in the sacred Mongolian territory that has been preserved since the days of Genghis Khan.The rest of the team is already in the Mongolian territory in search of rare artifacts relating to Genghis himself. As it turns out, both teams need to gather Christian and Mongolian artifacts and place them strategically in an ancient place that has not seen the light of day in centuries. This combination of artifacts may indeed have the necessary might to deflect the oncoming meteor that is aimed at planet earth. Without this deed being accomplished, the magnetic pull that was prophesized in ancient times will keep the meteorite on its deadly course.THE EYE OF GOD is a page-turner of the highest caliber and I defy any reader to avoid the temptation of consuming it all in one sitting. As always, Rollins provides an informative afterword entitled Truth or Fiction, whereby the most speculative ideas that were posited have the most evidence supporting their validity. Fans of sci-fi and physics will enjoy the passages on quantum physics and dark energy that provide for a nice alternative/twisting final chapter.Reviewed by Ray Palen for New Mystery Reader

4.5 starsChristian Baskous ROCKS! Loved this narrator, otherwise, had i read and not listened, this would have been a 3.5 star rating.Seldom have i enjoyed an Audio Book more. i found myself looking forward to going to work so i could listen to more of this story. Did not believe before this one that i could get into another Sigma Force Book, due to flaws that i will explain below, faults that pertain to the whole series and not any single installment. What i liked: James Rollins is a very good writer. Love the blend of Science and Secret Agent Mission Impossible Blend, and as he was a Vet before he became a best-selling author, Rollins usually slips in an animal or two that does amazing fun secret agent stuff to help the heroes in their quest to save the Planet--like the animal attacks terrorists on command or swims the injured astrophysicist minority woman to safety. These books are ridiculously unbelievable but also a guilty pleasure--so much fun. What i don't like about Sigma Force novels: the main characters are BO-Ring as Hell. They are all brilliant, have advanced degrees in Astrophysics, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Medicine, Biology and Bioinfomatics, Neuronanotechnology, Green Beret Level combat training, magnetized hands or gadgetry, can speak many languages flawlessly, all pack Sig Sauers, Nunchucks and Ph.Ds, have Cirque du Soleit level dexterity, the ability to climb ropes while bleeding profusely and murder assasins while racing motorbikes, shoot down helicopters on a daily basis with rocket launchers, adept with computers, all fantastically young and ageless forever and healthy and of course, drop-dead gorgeous. These people are so dull and interchangeable that when two characters died i felt absolutely no grief (Meh), and when the same two characters miraculously survived in another dimension i felt aboslutely no relief (Meh).i sort of like Grey Pierce, i do love Kowalski, and the non-human characters are awesome.Other criticism: If you are triggered by overly graphic descriptions of bad guys being torn apart by wolves, stay clear of this one.