{"id":3826,"date":"2015-10-21T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2021-01-17T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T21:36:56","slug":"james-rollins-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2015\/10\/21\/james-rollins-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"James Rollins revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Rollins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve posted previously on the techno-thrillers of James Rollins<\/strong> (pen name of former veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

He started out doing a series of stand-alone techno-thrillers. I got into them when I was looking for stuff in the vein of Clive Cussler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While the ideas and writing were good, something seemed missing, and so I kind of felt he was a “grade B Cussler.” Then he started a series with a group of scientist-soldiers called “Sigma Force,” which is part of the real DARPA. Through the first eight stories, they went up against an ancient secret society. This I covered in the first posting<\/a>, and they ended that group in the eighth novel, Bloodline<\/em>. (Interestingly, he tied in a few characters from his stand-alone novels into the Sigma Force series along the way.)<\/p>\n

Now, we have the post-Guild Sigma Force novels. No longer going up against the same foes, I think Rollins has been able to keep the series going.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Eye of God<\/em> ties in Attila the Hun<\/strong> (strangely, another techno-thriller author also used Attila in his book around the same time), the Vatican, and a potential armageddon. Can Sigma figure out what’s going on and stop it in time?<\/p>\n

Sixth Extinction<\/em> has the team go up against a brilliant, but twisted geneticist who plans some radical changes to humanity and the world in an effort to save it.<\/p>\n

Bone Labyrinth<\/em> is planned for later this year.<\/p>\n

Tucker Wayne<\/h3>\n

Former soldier Tucker Wayne<\/strong>, and his military dog, Kane<\/strong>, is now the star of their own spin-off series from Sigma Force. They were first introduced in a short story, “Tracker” (included in the paperback edition of The Devil Colony<\/em>). While not a formal part of Sigma Force, they are sometimes given assignments from them.<\/p>\n

Their first “solo” novel is The Kill Switch<\/em>. In Russia to protect a rich industrialist from possible assassination, they are soon asked by Sigma Force to get a Russian scientist out. He has made a dangerous discovery that ties in with early life on Earth. They are pursued by a mad Russian general who hopes to use this discovery to destroy America. They quest takes them to South Africa and a discovery made during the Boer War.<\/p>\n

This is an interesting series. Tucker is not your expected hard-ass soldier. He has suffered from his experiences in the Iraq War. He can be very deadly, but would like to avoid doing so. I am not aware of any other action hero using a military dog, and Rollins uses his experiences as a veterinarian to make Kane come alive. I look forward to their next story, The War Hawk<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is another series that Rollins is co-writing with another, this one with Grant Blackwood<\/strong>. He’s co-authored or ghost written (not always clear which) several other works, including the first three of Cussler’s Fargo<\/strong> series. \u00a0Its sometimes unclear with some of these co-authored series to what extent the main author has contributed to the series.<\/p>\n

Regardless, another set of interesting reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted previously on the techno-thrillers of James Rollins (pen name of former veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski). He started out doing a series of stand-alone techno-thrillers. I got into them when I was looking for stuff in the vein of Clive Cussler. While the ideas and writing were good, something seemed missing, and so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan revisits James Rollins. #newpulp","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[240],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","category-techno-thriller","tag-james-rollins"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2015\/11\/eye-of-god.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-ZI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}