Gene
Gene by Stel Pavlou, published by Simon & Schuster UK on October 3, 2005, is a thrilling narrative that intertwines modern suspense with ancient history. The story follows Detective James North as he confronts a young, mentally unstable man holding a child hostage at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. North’s investigation takes a dark turn when he is injected with a substance that triggers hallucinatory nightmares and memories that do not belong to him, leading him on a quest to uncover the identity of his attacker, a man named Gene.
As North delves deeper into the mystery, he discovers connections to a past that spans over 3000 years, involving a forgotten Greek warrior named Cyclades, who fought in the Trojan Wars. The narrative explores themes of reincarnation and the eternal struggle between Cyclades and the Babylonian Magi Athanatos. Readers will find themselves immersed in a complex tale of identity and destiny, as North grapples with the instinctive need to confront Gene, blurring the lines between past and present. This edition contains 448 pages and is presented in English.
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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.
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