6th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel by James Rollins

I know I read at least one book by Rollins before we started this blog, and five years ago, East Coast Don reviewed Rollins’ book, Map of Bones, but then he never got back to reading Rollins again. I got 35% into this one before I quit. 6^th Extinction: A Sigma Force Novel is a thriller about a deadly pathogen that has been released, either accidentally or by sabotage, from a clandestine lab near Mono Lake in California. The action quickly jumps around the world, from California to Antarctica to D.C. It is action-packed, but I found it mostly unbelievable and found the characters to be flat, stereotypic, uninteresting. This one does not even qualify for my minimum standard of being an airplane book. If I bought this to take with me on a flight from LAX to JFK, I'd be bored and roaming the aisles before we reached Colorado. Rollins is a prolific writer and obviously has a huge number of fans, but given the many authors who I do enjoy, I’m disinclined to revisit his writing in the near future.