Bloodline

New York Times best-selling author James Rollins takes you to the edge of modern medicine, genetics, and technology, revealing the next evolutionary leap forward: immortality - a future conceived through the monstrous ingenuity of man....

Galilee, 1025. A cunning Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure: the Bachal Isu - the staff of Jesus Christ - a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that will forever change humanity if unleashed. A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast of the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman and brutally killing her husband.

Painter Crowe and his Sigma team are enlisted for the top secret rescue mission. The kidnapped woman is Amanda Gant-Bennett, the daughter of US president James Gant. Crowe is more than a little suspicious that the kidnapping masks a far more nefarious plot.