James Rollins - Black Order

Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin. As Commander Gray Pierce investigates; he is soon caught up in 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 Lisa Cummings; a young American doctor; begins to investigate reported atrocities at the monastery; she is suddenly the target of an assassin. Her only ally is Painter Crowe; director of SIGMA Force; now undercover - and already showing signs of the baffling malady destroying the minds of the monks. Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa - and a world in jeopardy .