About Jim
About Jim
James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.
The New York Times has called him “what you might get if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together.” NPR describes his work as “adventurous and enormously engrossing.”
Rollins masterfully blends unseen worlds, cutting-edge science, and forgotten history with pulse-pounding suspense. A former veterinarian, he practiced in Sacramento for more than a decade and continues to volunteer at local animal shelters. He now lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with his two golden retrievers, Echo and Duncan. When he’s not writing, he enjoys scuba diving, spelunking, kayaking, hiking, and traveling to far-flung corners of the globe—experiences that often spark the ideas for his next globe-trotting adventure.
Explosive, Page-Turning Adventures
The exotic locales in James Rollins’ novels are a seamless hybrid of imagination, meticulous research, and his extensive travels across the United States and Europe, as well as New Zealand, the South Pacific, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America. Recent journeys have included book tours and speaking engagements throughout the United States and several European countries, where he delivers talks, seminars, and media interviews.
In recent years, much of his travel has focused on connecting with readers in both intimate and large-group settings—at writing and fan conferences, and even aboard seagoing “seminars at sea.” His natural mentoring and coaching skills have made him a highly sought-after writing instructor and guest speaker at workshops, symposia, conventions, and other events across the country.
James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Sigma Force series, which includes Sandstorm, Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas Strain, The Last Oracle, The Doomsday Key, The Devil Colony, Bloodline, The Eye of God, The 6th Extinction, The Bone Labyrinth, The Seventh Plague, The Demon Crown, Crucible, The Last Odyssey, Kingdom of Bones, Tides of Fire, and Arkangel. He has also written six standalone adventure thrillers, the blockbuster movie novelization Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Tucker Wayne series, the Order of the Sanguines series, the Jake Ransom middle-grade series, and the Moonfall Saga, which includes The Starless Crown, Cradle of Ice, and the third installment, A Dragon of Black Glass. His latest Individual Adventure, Trust No One—the 8th adventure—debuted on February 24, 2026.
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