Gene - Brossura

Pavlou, Stel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743403851 ISBN 13: 9780743403856

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

'It's a great idea, and the synthesis of fantasy and hard SF is surprisingly convincing . . . Drags you through the pages by the lapel'
SFX magazine
'GENE is a very filmic thriller about immortality and revenge with a tantalising storyline that will grab your attention to the end'
SHOTS magazine 14/02
'A powerful read'
OBSERVER 06/03
'This really is something different...when so much crime fiction these days is thin, recycled material, this one is the catnip to those seeking the unusual' CRIME TIME

L'autore:

Stel Pavlou lives in Kent. He has worked in various jobs, received a degree in American Studies and written the script for the film THE 51ST STATE, starring Samuel L Jackson and Robert Carlyle. Visit www.stelpavlou.com

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743403851
• ISBN 13: 9780743403856
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448