The Demon Crown: A Sigma Force Novel Page 42

  James Rollins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma Force series has been lauded as one of the “top crowd-pleasers” (New York Times) and one of the “hottest summer reads” (People). He lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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  ALSO BY JAMES ROLLINS

  The Seventh Plague

  The Bone Labyrinth

  The 6th Extinction

  The Eye of God

  Bloodline

  The Devil Colony

  Altar of Eden

  The Doomsday Key

  The Last Oracle

  The Judas Strain

  Black Order

  Map of Bones

  Sandstorm

  Ice Hunt

  Amazonia

  Deep Fathom

  Excavation

  Subterranean

  BY JAMES ROLLINS AND REBECCA CANTRELL

  Blood Infernal

  Innocent Blood

  The Blood Gospel

  BY JAMES ROLLINS AND GRANT BLACKWOOD

  War Hawk

  The Kill Switch

  COPYRIGHT

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  THE DEMON CROWN. Copyright © 2017 by James Czajkowski. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Digital Edition December 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-238175-0

  ISBN 978-0-06-238173-6 (hardcover)

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  ISBN 978-0-06-284323-4 (Barnes & Noble signed edition)

  ISBN 978-0-06-284324-1 (Books-A-Million signed edition)

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