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b'This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome James Rollins, author of THE STARLESS CROWN.
\\nAbout THE STARLESS CROWN: A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death.
\\nFleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:
\\nA broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he\\u2019s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.
\\nA drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own.
\\nAn imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact – one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe.
\\nOn the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.
\\nBut with each passing moment, doom draws closer.
\\nAbout James Rollins: James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers. His writing has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold more than 20 million books. The New York Times says, \\u201cRollins is what you might wind up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together.\\u201d NPR calls his work, \\u201cAdventurous and enormously engrossing.\\u201d Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets matched with stunning suspense. As a veterinarian, he had a practice in Sacramento for over a decade and still volunteers at local shelters. Nowadays, Rollins shares his home up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with his two golden retrievers, Echo and Duncan. He also enjoys scuba diving, spelunking, kayaking, and hiking. Of course, he loves to travel and experience new places around the world, which often inspire his next globe-trotting adventure.
\\nThis week\\u2019s picks:
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\\n* James: Hades (Video Game)
\\n* Tracy: Sheriff of Nottingham (Board Game)
\\n* Patrick: Peacemaker (HBOMax)
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\\nLinks:
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\\n* James Rollins on Twitter
\\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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\\n\\xa9 2022 Patrick Hester
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