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    Gene

    By Stel Pavlou

    3.5/5

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    Detective James North is called upon to deal with a young, mentally unstable man holding a child hostage at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. When he arrives, he is disturbed to discover that - although the bad guy is a complete stranger - he's been asking for North by name.

    The hostage situation goes wrong, and North finds himself injected with a substance that causes hallucinatory nightmares and flashes of memory that are not his own. He begins to hunt through New York for his attacker, a man he feels inexplicably compelled to kill - a man called Gene.

    As he does so, North unlocks the secret of his past, a past that stretches back over 3000 years. GENE is the story of forgotten Greek warrior Cyclades who fought and died in the Trojan Wars, and was fated by the gods to be reincarnated seven times. Locked in a cycle of battle with the Babylonian Magi Athanatos, Cyclades must once again strive to defeat him and thwart his quest to achieve immortality. Cyclades and Athanatos. North and Gene. But in this incarnation, neither man knows which is which, or why each of them has the instinctive need to kill the other.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateMar 4, 2010
    ISBN9781849831390
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    Stel Pavlou

    Stel Pavlou is a British author and screenwriter. He is the author of the bestselling novel for adults Decipher, as well as Gene, and has also written short stories based in the world of the popular television series Doctor Who. Daniel Coldstar: The Relic War is his first book for young readers. Stel lives in Colorado. You can visit him online at www.stelpavlou.com and at www.danielcoldstar.com.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing. Why do I have to give this only 5 stars? Why not 50? From what I know of the author, this just shows the range of his talents. Within this book is a good mix of history, myth, current times, science, literary fiction and horror. I pretty much agree with Al in that if I were a mainstream author, I wouldn't know where to put it, either. But who cares? It's certainly a good cerebral read.

      In any event, there will be a full blown review shortly. You'll find it where I usually publish those things: accidentallymars.wordpress.com. Good job, Stel. Good job. (By the way, I totally geeked over your mention of Cold Harbor Springs Laboratory. I thought I was the only one who gave them full study on a fairly regular basis.)
    • 2/5
      Stel Pavlou's first novel, Decipher, is one of my favorite books, mixing ancient mysteries with physics and alternate histories. When I'd heard he'd written Gene, his second novel, I was eager to read it. This book wasn't as much of a page-turner for me though. In fact, I had to force myself to get through it. The themes here are genetics, mythology, past lives and destiny, all interesting, but none of which I find as interesting as the themes in his first book, so I'm not sure if it was the writing or just my personal preferences that made this book drag for me. There were way too many threads to this story, which made it really hard to get into and follow. If an author can pull multiple threads together in such a way that there's a big moment of revelation or things weave together in an unexpected way, that's a payoff that makes following a complicated storyline worthwhile. Unfortunately, none of the many threads in this story ever came together in a way that felt worth the effort. There were a lot of interesting elements in this story, but much of the writing felt rather contrived. I really loved Decipher, and Gene was disappointing in comparison.
    • 3/5
      I loved the description of this book, and so I bought it. It mixes ancient history (Mycenaean and Trojans) with the modern day. It also brings in re-incarnation, genetic engineering, and cloning. This was all presented through a strange crime at the Met in NYC, and the resulting police investigation.Unfortunately there were too many things going on, and so none of them were really given any depth, or much explanation. The book lacked focus and tried to do too much in braiding ancient history, modern science, and a police procedural.The story is very heavily laced with Deus Machina: All the stage-managing of real life is done by an evil baddie who uses his wealth and power to set up a corporation that takes care of everything from killing, to biological research, to acting as family services to those it uses but doesn't destroy.The two biggest problems however was the writing which was awkward: "He necked two fingers" (explaining the cop downing whiskey). Throughout the book his phrases bring you to a halt and pops you out of the story when you are reading. And the poor ending: the story pits 2 characters against each other, then adds a 3rd. It ends with the easy death of one, off stage, and the stand-off of the other two: gun to syringe. Nothing is resolved and lots of threads are left hanging.