Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge. His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charges a right-wing fundamentalist hit-squad to rid the world of all evidence of it.
The discovery originates from a confession in a remote village in Italy. A confession that sends the local priest into a panic and the Vatican into an uproar. The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic - a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world. Women who were infertile until they attended the clinic. Lassiter must discover the remaining mother before the hit men, and meanwhile his sister's killer is on the loose...
About the Author
John Case is the pseudonym of an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of two nonfiction books about the U.S. intelligence community. A resident of Washington, D.C., he is the proprietor of a company that specializes in international investigations for law firms and labor unions. Case's novels are The Genesis Code, The First Horseman, The Syndrome, The Eighth Day, The Murder Artist and Ghost Dancer.
Industry Reviews
"Excellent" - Guardian
"A sizzling thriller... well-written and extremely gripping" - Daily Mail
"Cracks along... more than enough murder, mayhem and scientific mystery to keep the reader entertained" - Sunday Telegraph
"A spellbinding biomedical thriller... Terrifying." - San Francisco Examiner
"[A] TAUT THRILLER... Razor-sharp dialogue, Byzantine story twists, and several harrowing encounters." - Chicago Tribune
"SHARPLY WRITTEN AND PACED... A BOOK THAT SNAPS, CRACKLES, AND POPS." - People
"COMPELLING... [A] thriller of the first magnitude... A kicker of an ending... one that will cross your mind more than once after you've placed this book among your collection of keepers." - Associated Press
"The story moves along at a tremendous pace but is so packed with intriguing tidbits about the information age that it's at once a little unsettling and hard to put down. Great reading right to the very end..." - Library Journal
"A first-rate biotech thriller with an intriguing, if ungodly, religious twist." - Kirkus Reviews
"The chase continues until nearly the last page, when the already telegraphed ending is revealed. But by that time, thanks to a strangely passionless plot and characters who are mostly figurines from a souvenir shop, the reader's ability to care has become smaller and smaller, finally shrinking to Rhett Butler mode." - David Murray, The New York Times Book Review
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