I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

The team attempt to track down a lost map journeying to Fort Knox and the grave of Meriwether Lewis. In Black Order publiJames Rollinsd June 2006 SIGMA Force team members risk their lives to get to the heart of one of humankind's greatest mysteries: the origins of life itself. It is a combination of Counter-terrorism research and covert operations.

James Rollins is the pen name of American veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski – born August 20 1961 – a writer of best-selling action-adventure thriller novels. Rollins is an amateur spelunker and a certified scuba diver. Rollins.