Author Rollins comes to Highlands Ranch for new book signing

New York Times bestselling author James Rollins will be in Denver at 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch (9315 Dorchester St.) to sign copies of his new book, “The 6th Extinction” ($27.99 Morrow, on sale Aug. 12.), the 10th book in the Sigma Force series which explores the possibility of a mass extinction and how that could actually be a good thing.

Rollins is the chair of the Authors United for Veterans program through USA Cares, a nonprofit organization, which provides grants to military families. Whether it’s helping a family relocate for a job or helping them pay their bills while they look for employment, USA Cares ensures our soldiers have a support system when they return from service.

Rollins is celebrating the Decade of Sigma by giving back.  He’s partnered with Barnes and Noble to donate books to troops and help raise funds for USA Cares. Today through Aug. 12, Barnes & Noble customers nationwide who use voucher #11412806 can donate 20 percent of their purchase to the USA Cares.

Rollins’ mission is to entertain readers not only with great stories but he also does extensive research  and includes the newest developments and theories in science while delving into history and imagining the future.  “The 6th Extinction” explores the impending mass extinction, ecological meltdowns, the Wooly Mammoth, synthetic biologists and why mass extinction might be a good for our planet.

Rollins is the New York Times best-selling author of international thrillers, translated into more than 40 languages. 

“The 6th Extinction” is the 10th book in the bestselling Sigma series. The plot  finds Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma in a race to unravel a threat that rises out of a remote military research station that sends out a distress call.  When help arrives every living thing is annihilated, the land is sterile and the blight is spreading.  From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.