THIS THRILLER DOESN'T JUST THRILL;IT ALSO EDUCATES AND INTRIGUES.SUCH IS THE DELIGHT OF BLACK ORDER,A PERFECT PIECE OF ESCAPIST FARE THAT ALSO HAS THE BRAINS TO IMPRESS.

In Copenhagen...

a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents--and into a terrifying mystery surrounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.

In the mountains of Nepal...

in a remote monastery, Buddhist monks inexplicably turn to cannibalism and torture--while Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, begins to show signs of the same baffling, minddestroying malady ... and Lisa Cummings, a dedicated American doctor, becomes the target of a brutal clandestine assassin.

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