Black Order (James Rollins)

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Black Order is a 2005 novel by James Rollins. The novel centers on Nazi mysticism and features the Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) and Wewelsburg.

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In Black Order, the Sigma Force team members risk their lives to get to the heart of one of humankind's greatest mysteries: the origins of life itself, the true reasons of evolution.

The opening of the novel in Breslau in 1945 is heavily inspired by the non-fiction book The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook. Much of the plot mechanics revolve around The Bell, a device that the Polish researcher Igor Witkowski claims was a Nazi anti-gravity machine. In Rollins's novel The Bell is a quantum measuring device that is said to control evolution. The plot begins when strange "ghost lights" appear in the Himalayas and soon after a mysterious illness affects everyone in the proximity but the story revolves around the idea of Nazi warfare and the psyche of the human entity.

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Painter Crowe Director of Sigma Force