“Ice Hunt” is set in a lost Russian ice-base in the Arctic and the dangerous life forms there. “Amazonia” deals with bizarre life forms in the deep Amazon jungles. A bit different, “Deep Fathom” is a sort of time-travel/alternate Earth story as the main hero tries to fix the world, with a crazed ex-brother-in-law out for blood. “Excavation” is set in Peru and deals with ancient, and perhaps extraterrestrial, nanotech.
“Subterranean” is set in an underground world of life forms that could spell doom for the world. He has admitted to reading Doc Savage stories, and that they inspired him. In his more recent works, he has been adding a section at the end of the works that give the real science behind some of the ideas in his books. Rollins has also tied a couple of his stand-alone novels to Sigma Force by having some characters in them reappear in that series, and has created a new spin-off series from it as well. Later on, he created an interesting group, called Sigma Force, though he still does an occasional stand-alone work and has a new series with another author, the Order of the Sanguines series which I have not gotten into. His first works were all stand-alone and made use of cutting-edge (or maybe bleeding-edge) science concepts.
I had to agree as I felt his earlier works were a little rough, but think he has gotten better.
He was first dismissed as a sort of “grade B” Cussler. James Rollins (pen name of veterinarian Jim Czajkowski) is an author I got into while reading Clive Cussler.
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