For a friend. She read the book about six years ago in a Dutch translation, doesn’t remember title nor author (I think he is male and US’er).
Summary of the story:
A journalist hears about a fire destroying the house of his sister, killing her and her son. The journalist finds out that other mothers and children (of the same age) die in suspicious circumstances.
The reader discovers that it has a connection with a dubious organisation within the Vatican. This is some sort of “secret service” and knows about a doctor who did cloning experiments with tissues of Jesus.
The journalist ends up in the little village (in Umbria/Italy) where that clinic was founded, discovers his sister was there.
Many adventures, a few killings, references to the Vatican “secret service”.
At the end the journalist is with a woman and child on a island, the child is supposed to be the last surviver of the experiment.
The Vatican secret services attempts to kill them. Fails.
The suggestion is made that the surviving child is indeed the cloned Jesus ( he can 'see things").
Thank you.
Salaam.A
Waiting for the SDMB detectives to reply…
No, it is not that one, thank you. And thank you for the link … I don’t know the author but it seems to be a good story. Fun to read anyway I think.
Maybe I should send her that one as sort of comfort-prize (How do you call that in English?).
It would seem that 2003 was a good year for Jesus cloning books, with The Jesus Thief and Cloning Christ. But for plot details matching the ones you gave, it looks like Eutychus has correctly picked The Genesis Code from 1997. From the review on Amazon.
For whatever reason, I got hooked on looking for this book, although I had never heard the plot description until ** Aldebaran’s** post. What amazes me is how many of these type of books are out there–including The Christ Clone Trilogy as well as the series by Monteleone, and another that uses a piece of the True Cross to clone Jesus (instead of the Shroud of Turin). And that’s not even touching upon the “Left Behind” clones (pun intended)! I knew Christian lit. was getting big, but I didn’t know it was this diverse.
This shall make a very good friend of mine very happy.
She wants this book already since a few years (she is Catholic and was intrigued by the plot of course) but I had also no clue about title or author and lost my own copy long ago.
