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    Year Zero
    Year Zero
    Year Zero
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    Year Zero

    By Jeff Long

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    In his sensational novel The Descent, Jeff Long created a world of stunning terror and adventure, "an imaginative tour de force" (Jon Krakauer). Now he imagines a scenario so vivid, so haunting, it anchors his place among storytelling masters.
    YEAR ZERO
    An archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land -- a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, a young American field researcher and expectant father, the line between noble discovery and the plunder of ruins is sacred -- until the night he crosses it. At a Roman landfill beneath the crucifixion grounds known as Golgotha, Nathan Lee yields to his professor's greed and turns common grave robber. His world -- his unborn daughter -- seems lost to him.
    Hundreds of miles away, on the remote Greek island of Corfu, a wealthy collector pries open his latest black-market purchase -- a fourteen-inch holy relic containing a vial of blood dating back to the first century -- and unleashes a two-thousand-year-old plague. As the pandemic explodes from the Mediterranean basin and threatens to devour humankind, Nathan Lee gets a chance at redemption. He embarks on an Odyssean journey back to the United States to find his family.
    Skirting the edges of the world, Nathan Lee's path finally leads him to New Mexico, where the greatest minds of science have converged at Los Alamos to find a vaccine. There Nathan Lee meets Miranda Abbot, a nineteen-year-old prodigy. As the cure continues to elude them, Miranda launches a desperate final strategy: the use of human lab rats cloned from the year zero. Nathan Lee, the thief of bones, comes face-to-face with men made from the very relics he looted, one of whom claims to be Jesus Christ, but may also be Patient Zero.
    Combining the scientific precision of The Andromeda Strain with the intensity of classic adventure epics, Jeff Long takes readers on a riveting voyage through the rubble of earthquake-torn Jerusalem, the serenity of the high Himalayas, and the eerie sanctuary of Los Alamos. With Long's characteristic originality, Year Zero races against the apocalyptic clock, creating a maze of twists, astonishing atmosphere, and the clash of science and faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateMar 13, 2003
    ISBN9780743482318
    Year Zero
    Author

    Jeff Long

    Jeff Long is the New York Times bestselling author whose novels include The Wall, The Reckoning (in development with Reese Witherspoon at Type A Productions), Year Zero, and The Descent. He is a veteran climber and traveler in the Himalayas and has worked as a stonemason, journalist, historian, screenwriter, and elections supervisor for Bosnia's first democratic election. His next novel, Deeper, is forthcoming in hardcover from Atria Books. He lives in Colorado. Visit his website at www.jefflongbooks.com.

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    • 1/5
      I don't know why I gave this author a second chance
    • 5/5
      Another beautifully written novel by Jeff Long, exploring the tendencies of humanity under duress.
    • 2/5
      Started out strong but faded ... left without finishing
    • 2/5
      I remember enjoying Jeff Long's The Descent when I read many years ago. But I can't say the same for Year Zero. The story just never came to together. A plague ravages the world after being unleashed from an ancient Christian artifact. The stories has interesting themes of Christianity, humanity, and sacrifice, but they never came together for me. I kept reading hoping they would get tied up in some interesting way, but it never came.
    • 4/5
      An engaging and entertaining read about science, particularly cloning, gone amuk and how people respond to it.
    • 5/5
      This book was way more 'involved' (technical and complex.. lots of medical stuff and historical flashbacks) than what I usually enjoy. However here it didn't detract from the book.. infact I liked it. Very exciting and gripping story... nice character development... great pace to the story (once it got going)... it carries you through to the end. 
    • 4/5
      This novel is full of intrigue, manipulation and selfishness. However, it is also full of goodness, love and ethics. This is certainly a very complex tale that will have you enthralled from beginning to end. I was quite intrigued by the scientific concepts presented. Though I was slightly disappointed by the end (I am not a fan of the anti-climax), I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable novel that is well worth reading.
    • 4/5
      Year Zero was one of the automatic recommendations from LibraryThing. I wasn't impressed when I saw that Jeff Long was a New York Times bestselling author: that typically indicates, for me at least, a book that is colloquial (as opposed to literary),pop-lit, superficial....And Dan Brown's recommendation on the back cover, depending on your taste, either taints or misleads by association. Prejudices notwithstanding, I did try the book anyway, hoping that the 406 pages would turn into a good long, informative, entertaining, thought-provoking read. And they did! Jeff Long's storytelling reminds me of Nevil Shute; now there's someone who knew how to tell a story! The book contains science and fact and these are skilfully used to develop a surprisingly believable plot. I'm not going to recapitulate the story here as that can be found on Amazon etc. I think a review is to indicate what type of fiction is being served up. I would characterize this story as sci-fi on a human scale; i.e. no inter-galactic devastation, aliens or monsters. Perhaps this is what is meant by "soft" sci-fi, I don't know. What a fabulous read! Thanks Librarything!
    • 1/5
      An incoherent story which hops from one implausible event to another. The story has annoying gaps both big and small; for example, didn't those cloned aramaic guys REALLY notice the two modern non-aramaic speaking investigators among them, who used to murmur among each other about them? And how about the kind of lamarckist idea of inheriting one's memories in the DNA (guess that was necessary for the sake of the story). For me this seemed a waste of time and, although I almost never quit a book I've begun reading, I just couldn't cover the last 50 pages or so. Nevertheless, smoothly written in places.
    • 3/5
      Not bad, but not really what I was looking for in a plague novel. A little too sci-fi, a little too touchy-feely, very Bouldery.I've got one more of his to try from the library.
    • 3/5
      416 pages - sounds long enough, doesn't it? But the author put way too many story threads into it, and what you're led to believe the story is about in the first 1/3 of the book turns out is only one of the smaller threads. It feels like there are the ideas for 3 separate books put into this one, and none of them, 'cept maybe the "cloning" section, was completed. All the "ideas" are interesting, but none of them were fleshed out - Long would have had to double the book size to complete all these thoughts.The story starts with a bit of a "thriller" take on it, and then this thread is dropped for 200 pages before being kinda wrapped up in the end. Then it turns into a man across the world trek, then it turns into a mad scientist story, then is "nicely" wrapped up by the mad scientists setting their experiments free.What does this have to do with an apocalypse? With finding a plague from the Biblical era? Well, I think Long forgot to tell us.
    • 3/5
      This book had a lot crammed into it. Religion, cloning, plague, messiahs… The basic premise is that a man searching for physical proof of Jesus unknowingly releases a Bibical age plague with no cure onto the world.I believe this was a first-time author, and in places it shows. It got a little lost somewhere in the middle. A great deal was made about a few characters who then disappeared until the very end.Overall, it was quite an interesting story with an ending I didn't expect.
    • 3/5
      I LOVED this book! Epic/apocalyptic/mad-scientists/cloning/archeology/deadly virus/1st century Christians.... there is so much to it; I can't even begin to summarize in a few sentences. I'm hoping that he will write a sequel, it definitely leaves unanswered questions at the end.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable apocalyptic plague story. If you like the beginning chapters of The Stand, and his novel The Descent, you'll enjoy this type of relentlessly bleak story.
    • 3/5
      I have read The Descent also by this author. While this book is well written the ending made no sense to me. I hate to enjoy a good book only to be disappointed by an ending that doesn't quite follow.
    • 2/5
      Year Zero raises a lot of interesting and thought-provoking question in it's early pages, it then proceeds to ignore them all and tell a fairly banal and run-of-the-mill post-apocolyptic tale of the fight to preserve humanity. This is not just a very disappointing book, it's a very annoying book as well.
    • 4/5
      Year Zero by Jeff Long follows along one of the genre's I find fascinating - post apocalyptic fiction. In this book a plague erupts from an artifact supposedly from the time of Jesus. The story centers on a promising anthropologist, Nathan Lane, who falls in with a crooked professor and his promise turns to dust. His only hope in life now is in his daughter. Abandoned in the Himalaya's and left to rot in a Tibetan jail, he miraculously is set free as the prison guards flee the oncoming plague. His only thought is to reunite with his daughter as he flees Asia and heads through the increasingly hostile North American continent. The other main character is Miranda, a child prodigy of an obscenely wealthy and influential industrialist. She's developed a technique to not only clone people, but also incorporate their memories and knowledge. This is probably the most far-fetched of concepts that needs to be suspended to enjoy the story. In an attempt to find a cure for the plague Miranda clones people from year zero, the time of Jesus.Nathan and Miranda meet up as his search for his daughter leads him to the fortified facility at Los Alamos where Miranda is working. Nathan begins to work with the clones Miranda has created trying to find clues about the plague as it was in their time.Long falls short on his characterization of Miranda. Her character seems so devoid of emotional responses that the love story between Nathan and Miranda seems unrealistic. The strong points of the story are when Long is following Nathan's journey. The horrors humanity will visit upon itself are more terrible than anything a plague could do. The side story of religion could have been more poignant. He used it as a plot device, but seemed to give it just a glancing touch.
    • 1/5
      Long fooled me once with The Descent, a book that sounded great but was absolutely awful in the telling and execution. Unfortunately, with Year Zero, Long fooled me again. Once again, the story sounded great. It was anything but. The story was not at all what the description lead me to believe it would be. And the story that Long tells might have been worth reading had the telling of the story been enjoyable. However, at least for me, Long's storytelling technique leaves much -- in fact all -- to be desired. I've been fooled twice now. I will not be fooled again: Long's books are no longer on my reading list.
    • 4/5
      A science fiction piece reminiscent of Michael Crichton, though less intense as a thriller, but with the same kind of smart, heroic but flawed characters who confront the destructive power of science. It's billed as a story about the conflict between science & faith, & the incident that initiates the devastating plague at the center of the story is a byproduct of a search for the historical (physical) Jesus, but that's pretty incidental; the heart of the story is less about a conflict between science & faith than about a struggle to maintain the human soul at the heart of scientific research rather than allowing the scientific goal, however crucial, to justify any means to attain it. It took almost half the book to set up the story,
    • 5/5
      Year Zero begins in a sort of Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider styled plot but quickly diverts into a completely different kind of tale. Part Seven Years in Tibet, part Clive Cussler novel, part Michael Crichton (ala Andromeda Strain—you know, the good Michael Crichton, not that other guy who writes movies), and a recurring dash of Indy here and there.If you like the Dan Brown books Angels and Demons or Da Vinci Code then you will probably like this book also, since it deals with many of the same themes such as early Christian iconography, religious beliefs, and possible historical scenarios. Sure, much of it is conjured from the author’s imagination but it is all believable in the fabric of the tale, which is what makes the book so engaging.I really fell in love with Nathan Lee Swift’s incredible journey from Tibet to Los Alamos and, surprising even to me, wished there there was more detail in the description of the trek. The last part of the book which takes place at Los Alamos while trying to find a cure for the Corfu Plague is just a little too predictable for my taste. Still, quite a good book and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys any of the aforementioned titles or genres.

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