Last Oracle

<p><strong>In this superb thriller from #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author James Rollins Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind.</strong></p><p>Salvation . . . or annihilation?</p><p>What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet--the next Buddha Mohammed or even Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind?</p><p>Formed during the Cold War a think tank of world scientists known as the JASONS have discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents--mathematical geniuses statistical masterminds brilliant conceptual artists. Yet among their young patients a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully a rogue group of the JASONS begins their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. Their goal to create a world prophet for the new millennium one who can be manipulated to create a new era of global peace . . . a peace on their own terms that is. But such manipulation has grim consequences as a biological meltdown among the children begins to occur--turning the innocent into something far more frightening.</p><p>To stop the JASONS before they engineer the extinction of mankind Commander Gray Pierce of SIGMA Force races against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history--the Greek Oracle of Delphi. But can the past save the future?</p>