James Rollins

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James Rollins
  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1999
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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About the Author

James Rollins (James Czajkowski) also known as James Clemens was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1961. With three sisters and three brothers he was raised in the Midwest and rural Canada. He graduated with a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Missouri and went on to establish his own veterinary practice in Sacramento, California. An amateur spelunker and PADI-certified scuba enthusiast, he'll often be found either underground or underwater.

Full Series List in Order

Jake Ransom

1 - Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow (May-2009)
2 - Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx (May-2011)

Moon Fall

1 - The Starless Crown (Jan-2022)
2 - The Cradle of Ice (Feb-2023)
3 - A Dragon of Black Glass (Feb-2025)

Sigma Force

1 - Sandstorm (Jul-2004)
2 - Map of Bones (May-2005)
3 - Black Order (Jul-2006)
3.5 - Kowalski's in Love (Jun-2006)
4 - The Judas Strain (Jul-2007)
5 - The Last Oracle (Jul-2008)
6 - The Doomsday Key (Jul-2009)
6.5 - The Skeleton Key (Jun-2011)
7 - The Devil Colony (Jul-2011)
7.5 - Tracker (Jun-2012)
8 - Bloodline (Jul-2012)
9 - The Eye of God (Jun-2013)
10 - The Sixth Extinction (Sep-2014)
10.5 - The Midnight Watch (Nov-2015)
11 - The Bone Labyrinth (Dec-2015)
11.5 - Crash and Burn (Nov-2016)
12 - The Seventh Plague (Dec-2016)
12.5 - Ghost Ship (Oct-2017)
13 - The Demon Crown (Dec-2017)
14 - Crucible (Jan-2019)
15 - The Last Odyssey (Mar-2020)
16 - Kingdom of Bones (Apr-2022)
17 - Tides of Fire (Aug-2023)
18 - Arkangel (Aug-2024)

Multi-Author Series List

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (May-2008)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Subterranean

    TRAVEL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EARTH... to a place you never dreamed existed. BENEATH THE ICE... a hand-picked team of specialists makes its way toward the center of the world. They are not the first to venture into this magnificent subterranean la...

  • Excavation

    THE SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE GUARDS MANY SECRETS... and a remarkable site nestled between two towering Andean peaks, hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. DIG DEEPER... through layers of rock and mystery, through centuries of dark, forgott...

  • Deep Fathom

    ON THE DAY EVERYTHING CHANGED FOREVER. . . The millennium's first eclipse of the sun cast a shroud over the Earth. And then catastrophe struck ... ON THE DAY THE END BEGAN... Solar flares have triggered a series of gargantuan natural disasters. ...

  • Amazonia

    The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world's most inhospitable rainforest -- a former Special Forces soldier, scarred, mutilated, terrifie...

  • Ice Hunt

    Buried deep in the earth's polar ice cap -- carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States -- is a secret place, the site of a remarkable abandoned experiment that could have frightening ramifications for the planet. The brain...

  • Sandstorm

    Sigma Force - 1

    An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies ...

  • Map of Bones

    Sigma Force - 2

    During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, ed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a ne...

  • Kowalski's in Love

    in Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night
    Sigma Force - 3.5

    PREPARE TO BE THRILLED AS YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE. THRILLER is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-w...

  • Black Order

    Sigma Force - 3

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



  • The Judas Strain

    Sigma Force - 4

    From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind--unknown, unstoppable . . . and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cumming...

  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    Indiana Jones

    "The name is Jones. Indiana Jones."

    He's back. Everyone's favorite globe-trotting, tomb-raiding, wisecracking archaeologist is finally at it again.

    Now it's 1957, the atomic age is in full swing, and McCarthy-era paranoia has the natio...

  • The Last Oracle

    Sigma Force - 5

    In Washington, D.C., a homeless man takes an assassin's bullet and dies in Commander Gray Pierce's arms. A bloody coin clutched in the dead man's hand -- an ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi-- is the key to a conspir...

  • Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow

    Jake Ransom - 1

    A mysterious envelope, a glowing artifact, and an explosion that blows out the lights ... Jake Ransom and his older sister, Kady, are suddenly moving through darkness. .A few words scrape into his mind, like fingernails digging at the lid of a stone...

  • The Doomsday Key

    Sigma Force - 6

    At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archae1ogist is found dead in St Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. Three murder victims on three continent...

  • Altar of Eden

    Baghdad falls . . . and armed men are seen looting the city zoo. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground lab is ransacked -- and something horrific is set loose upon the world. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk in...

  • Tagger

    in Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense and Horror

    Don't turn out the lights. Don't go out alone. And whatever you do, don't let down your guard. Because your neighbors might seem normal, but why do they collect knives and eat their steaks so bloody? And when the boy of your dreams finally asks you o...

  • Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx

    Jake Ransom - 2

    Using his father's watch as a key, Jake intends to return to Calypsos. Instead he's thrust into a strange desert land where he's joined by his friends Marika, Pindor, and Bach'uuk and his sister, Kady. As they try to figure out what to do next, a sur...

  • The Skeleton Key

    Sigma Force - 6.5

    From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a thrilling short story that delves deep beneath the city of Paris to a dark necropolis, where the only means for escape is...The Skeleton Key. Seichan is ripped out of the Sigma series fo...

  • The Devil Colony

    Sigma Force - 7

    The gruesome discovery of hundreds of mummified bodies deep in the Rocky Mountains -- along with strange artifacts inscribed with an unfathomable script -- stirs controversy and foments unrest. And when a riot at the dig site results in the horrible ...



  • The Pit

    in Warriors 3

    From George R. R. Martin's Introduction to Warriors:

    "People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales...

  • Tracker

    Sigma Force - 7.5

    From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a stirring story of a soldier and his military war dog who are drawn into a dark mystery tracing back to World War II and a lost treasure tied to the bones of the dead. Off the streets in ...

  • Bloodline

    Sigma Force - 8

    Galilee, 1025: A Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure in an ancient citadel -- a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power. A millennium later, Commander Gray Pierce of Sigma Force is dispatched to the African jungle, teaming ...

  • The Eye of God

    Sigma Force - 9

    In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past. In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive ...

  • The Sixth Extinction

    Sigma Force - 10

    In a masterful epic that combines timeless mystery and ripped-from-the-headlines scientific intrigue, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins takes humankind to its endpoint, to a fate inscribed in rock and ice in an event known as The 6th Ex...

  • The Midnight Watch

    Sigma Force - 10.5

    From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a lightning-paced short story, in which a major attack on U.S. soil can only be stopped by…The Midnight WatchIn the dead of night, a faceless enemy hacks into the Smithsonian Institution’...

  • The Bone Labyrinth

    Sigma Force - 11

    A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever . . . ...

  • Crash and Burn

    Sigma Force - 11.5

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a shocking short story, where a chance mishap leads to the discovery of a weapon like no other in . . . Crash and Burn.On a transatlantic flight, the two black sheep of Sigma For...

  • The Seventh Plague

    Sigma Force - 12

    In a breathtaking blend of scientific intrigue and historical mystery, #1 New York Times bestselling mastermind, James Rollins, reveals an ancient threat hidden within the pages of the Bible, one that threatens the modern world If the biblical pla...

  • Ghost Ship

    Sigma Force - 12.5

    From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes an electrifying short story, in which the battle over a lost treasure leads to murder, betrayal, and the revelation of a shocking mystery hidden aboard the . . . Ghost ShipThe disco...



  • The Demon Crown

    Sigma Force - 13

    To save mankind’s future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil’s bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat in this gripping adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins. Off...

  • Crucible

    Sigma Force - 14

    In the race to save one of their own, Sigma Force must wrestle with the deepest spiritual mysteries of mankind in this mind-expanding adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, told with his trademark blend of cutting edge science, hist...

  • The Last Odyssey

    Sigma Force - 15

    To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge s...

  • Unrestricted Access

    Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins’s wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks, including a new full-length novella featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his m...

  • The Starless Crown

    Moon Fall - 1

    An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells...

  • Kingdom of Bones

    Sigma Force - 16

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, the latest riveting, deeply imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series, told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action. It begins in...

  • The Cradle of Ice

    Moon Fall - 2

    The second book of four in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, The Cradle of Ice is a page-turning tale of action, adventure, betrayal, ambition, and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs...

  • Tides of Fire

    Sigma Force - 17

    In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, de...

  • Arkangel

    Sigma Force - 18

    Currently in development as a TV series from Amazon MGM Studios, a story of a thrilling hunt around the globe, pitting nation against nation, as ancient myths of a lost continent prove all too real -- the latest novel in the bestselling Sigma Force s...

  • A Dragon of Black Glass

    Moon Fall - 3

    The third and penultimate book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, A Dragon of Black Glass is a tale of relentless adventure and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread.What ...



Award-Winning Books by James Rollins

The Bone Labyrinth
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Thriller


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Rollins has published 39 books.

The next book by James Rollins, A Dragon of Black Glass, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by James Rollins, Subterranean, was published in June 1999.

Yes. James Rollins has 3 series.
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