Sigma Force series by James Rollins
I have become totally obsessed with the Sigma Force series by @authorjamesrollins.
It crosses a few genres so it's hard to describe it without turning people off. For instance, it's kind of like the Da Vinci Code (which I HATED!!) crossed with Indiana Jones, crossed with the good elements of Mission Impossible ... it's got adventure, science, history ..
Sigma Force are an elite covert arm of the US Defense Department made up of former Special Forces officers trained as experts in various scientific fields. Think scientists with guns .. but there's so much more. On the one hand it's a real ride - action packed, fun, popcorny .. but the series gets better and better as you go and they become more and more thought-provoking.
I have come across two ships that I am shipping soooooo hard ... Gray x Seichan and from book 10 "The Sixth Extinction", I am totally shipping Jenna x Drake.
Despite being action .. Rollins writes characters and to my surprise, writes women really, really well. Totally passes the Bechdel Test for what it's worth and I really care about the characters... he also makes me invested in minor characters and I get upset when they die.
I can't do fan art, so did my own AI representations of the characters. I know people hate AI, but I can't draw! I'll do some fan fic for the above ships shortly if I can but here are some visualisations of the characters.
