Cost: $5.95US
Page Count: 605 w/ Author's Notes
Now, who doesn't love a good ol' Sigma Force novel? I do, normally. Painter Crow and the rest of the Sigma crew are all likable characters and Rollins does a nice job of connecting each of his characters both personally and professionally. All in all, James Rollins is a fairly decent storyteller. However...not every novel is a gem. The Devil Colony, while not a dud, was certainly not a gem, either. Maybe The Devil Colony would be like a lump of carbon yet to be put to the test of time and pressure and heat to make it that beautiful diamond. The Devil Colony is a lump of coal. Or a fossilized dog turd.
My past history reading Rollins had me excited about this one. Even the back of the book had me excited. "The gruesome remains of hundreds of mummified bodies deep in the Rocky Mountains - along with strange artifacts inscribed with an unfathomable script - stirs controversy and foments unrest." Hell yeah. Foments unrest, motherfucker! Yeah....ummm, no. It kinda sucked.
Here's the nutshell version of the tale. There's some native american problems that stem from the fact that our native brothers are trying to protect a cache of weird nanobot stuff (not sure...zoned out on this part) they have been hiding away for millennia. Something about Native Americans being descendants of lost Jews or something. Then someone stupid stumbles across the nanotechnology stuff, the government gets involved, so does Sigma Force, stuff happens, gunfights ensue and people die. In the end, the demise of the entire world is averted. Again. This book was all over the map and Rollins definitely had trouble holding it all together.
So, basically, this is a typical Rollins Sigma Force novel with elements that totally did not grab my attention thrown in for good measure. I'm not completely sure where this ended up on the best seller list but I am sure that it was way too high.
Come on James. You can do better, dude. You have done better. For shame.
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