The God Gene
A Novel
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3.9 • 20 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
Rick Hayden and Laura Fanning of Panacea return to encounter another mindbending scientific scenario in, The God Gene, the new thriller by F. Paul Wilson.
F. Paul Wilson is the winner of the Career Achievement in Thriller Fiction in the 2017 RT Reviewers' Choice Best Book Awards
Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene."
A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain development—specifically creativity—and laymen started calling it "the God Gene." Keith had been tracking this gene through the evolutionary tree, and was excited by an odd blue-eyed primate he brought back from East Africa. But immediately after running the creature's genetic code, he destroyed all the results and vanished.
Rick and Laura's search takes them to an uncharted island in the Mozambique Channel, home of the dapis—blue-eyed primates whose DNA hides a world-shattering secret. In a globe-spanning mixture of science, mystery and adventure reminiscent of Michael Crichton, The God Gene takes you to the edge of evolutionary theory and beyond...way beyond.
The ICE Sequence Series
1. Panacea
2. The God Gene
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dr. Laura Fanning, a New York City medical examiner, and her sidekick, Rick Hayden, go in search of Rick's brother, Keith Somers, in Wilson's exciting sequel to 2016's Panacea. An NYU zoologist, Keith vanished after mapping the genome of an exotic monkey, a creature he killed before destroying all evidence from his research center. As Laura and Rick begin to piece together the fragments of Keith's life, they realize that he may have contrived his own disappearance. Their quest takes them to Mozambique, where the strange monkeys known as dapis may hold the key to a revelation more stunning than the missing link. Standing in their way are the poacher Amaury Laffite and entrepreneur Marten Jeukens, an Afrikaner who wishes to unleash a dark plan for the dapis to save humankind. Looming over the twisting plot is the enigma of ICE, the "intrusive cosmic entities" that may connect this series with Wilson's Repairman Jack books. Tight writing keeps this science adventure tale churning with the pace of James Rollins toward a conclusion worthy of Michael Crichton.)
