The Judas Strain - James Rollins [207]
And lastly, I must stress any and all errors of fact or detail fall squarely on my own shoulders.
About the Author
JAMES ROLLINS is the bestselling author of eight previous novels: Subterranean, Excavation, Deep Fathom, Amazonia, Ice Hunt, Sandstorm, Map of Bones, and Black Order. He has a doctorate in veterinary medicine and his own practice in Sacramento, California. An amateur spelunker and a certified scuba enthusiast, you’ll often find him either underground or underwater.
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ALSO BY JAMES ROLLINS
Black Order
Map of Bones
Sandstorm
Ice Hunt
Amazonia
Deep Fathom
Excavation
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE JUDAS STRAIN. Copyright © 2007 by Jim Czajkowski. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © MAY 2007 ISBN: 9780061792755
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Note From The Historical Record
Return Journey of Marco Polo (1292–1295)
1293
Exposure
1: Dark Madonna
2: Bloody Christmas
3: Ambush
4: High-Sea Piracy
5: Lost and Found
6: Pestilence
Incubation
7: Of a Journey Untold
8: Patient Zero
9: Hagia Sophia
10: Out of the Frying Pan
11: Broken Glass
12: Of a Map Forbidden
Outbreak
13: Witch Queen
14: Ruins of Angkor
15: Demons in the Deep
16: Bayon
17: Where Angels Fear to Tread
18: The Gateway to Hell
19: Traitor
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also By James Rollins
Copyright
About the Publisher