Altar of Eden

From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes his first stand-alone novel in more than five years. During the battle for Baghdad, soldiers fight over the ruins of the Baghdad Zoo, opening the floodgates for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic animals to Western nations. Years later, veterinarian Maura Kelly uncovers black market smugglers carrying bizarrely mutated, super-intelligent animals. Soon Maura will expose a horrifying secret that traces back to Biblical times. In the face of global terror and a genetic nightmare, Maura will have to risk all to survive.