James BeauSeigneur

Book two in the Christ Clone Trilogy was every bit as gripping and
fascinating as the first one was, if not more so. Big bites. That's
the only way I can describe the way I devoured this book.

Book two opens just as the earth is recovering from it's second nuclear
war that has destroyed most of India, all of Pakistan and part of
China. Christopher Goodman is rising in the ranks of ambassadors and
diplomats at the United Nations, aided and assisted by his good friend
and surrogate father, Decker show more Hawthorne, and former assistant
secretary-general Robert Milner. Two prophets have appeared in
Jerusalem promising death and destruction beyond all imaginings and
144,000 Jews, marked with the blood red tattoo of Hebrew letters on
their foreheads are fanning out across the globe, terrorizing nations
and hurling psychic attacks on their citizens. And the first of three
asteroids is about to strike the earth......

I don't want to tell you much more about the plot because I want you to
read it for yourself, if you are so inclined, and it would be far to
easy to give away the good parts. Suffice it to say that at the end of
this second volume, I'm STILL not sure who the bad guys are. Everything
you thought you knew gets turned on it's head in this book, and I closed
it thinking, "Well, I'm going to Hell." LOL

This book tears along at an even better pace than the first one, rising
to a crescendo that is going to open the third and last volume. The
research, again, is impeccably done. The writing is superb. The story
is so familiar, yet so alien. It is powerfully told, the deception so
complete, that I honestly can't see the Anti in Antichrist. He's
Anti-Anti (if you get my drift) and completely logical and ..... Well,
I'd better stop before I give away the store. show less

What if someone decided to clone....... Christ?

This is Book One of the Christ Clone Trilogy and it was a hell of a ride
(pardon the pun). I've read other apocalyptic novels in the past, including a couple of
the lamentable Tim LeHaye "Left Behind" series and I've always found
them to be trite, quite predictable, and unbearably preachy, but this
one is completely different. Beauseigneur writes like Tom Clancy or
Michael Crichton, with a command of not only science and history, but
medicine, show more geography, politics, astrophysics and the Bible as well. It
is gripping and compelling from beginning to end and even at the end of
this first book, I'm still not sure who the "good guys" are....

The story begins in the early 1980s with a scientific exploration of the
Shroud of Turin (an event which actually happened, BTW). In the study
of the Shroud, samples were taken to be examined. One of the scientists
on the team (an atheist) has long held a theory that the earth and all
its inhabitants are the result of extraterrestrial experimentation and
the man who was crucified that dark Friday 2000 years ago was actually
an alien, a member of this Master Race. Imagine his surprise to find
that there were some living dermal cells to be found among the samples
taken of the area around the right heel of the Man on the Shroud. When
cultured, these "C-Cells," as he calls them, show amazing properties
which could lead to the cure for AIDS, cancer, in fact, every disease
known to mankind. What if...... Yep, he clones them, expecting to
create a duplicate of the alien known as Jesus. What he winds up
creating is so much more. But is it good, or evil? Would God allow His
Son to be created in a laboratory? Will this forbidden experiment lead
to the Triumph of Man or the Wrath of God? Can an impure being arise
from the sacred living flesh of Jesus?

Decker Hawthorne is a reporter working for NewsWorld magazine who winds
up raising the orphaned ward of his friend, Professor Goodman. But
Christopher Goodman is no ordinary boy. He has never been sick a day in
his life, heals overnight when injured, and has memories of biblical
times that wake him screaming from his sleep. In the 30 years covered
in this book, Decker becomes intimately involved with the inner workings
of world politics in his new position as aide to the secretary-general
of the UN, with Christopher never far from his side.

This book is both brilliantly researched and vividly written. The
intricacies of the plot twists and turns, the attention to the smallest
detail of political intrigue, the matter-of-fact directness of the
authors descriptions of cataclysmic events, nuclear wars, political
intrigue at the United Nations, and the logical order of events in this
book amazed me. The characters are so well-developed and fleshed out
that it is almost impossible to tell which "side" they are on. I'm
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Quite an entertaining read. I actually purchased this book like 10 years ago after hearing about it, and it's been sitting in my TBR pile for that long before I finally got around to it, and after reading it, I can honestly say I wish I'd picked up the book sooner.

As far as writing style goes, narrative, characterization, and plot twists, the author does a fairly solid job in all departments, there were no major issues or disappointments to me as a reader. I also liked the research and show more Biblical quotations and how the author incorporated them into his narrative. A few of the plot twists were genuinely shocking and kept me on my toes.

The ending of the book absolutely leaves me wanting to continue the story, so onto book 2! show less

This book was a bit of a let-down after the first two, which seems to be almost inevitable when dealing with the final book in trilogies - but I can, and will say, that this was definitely better than many other third books, such as Mockingjay and Allegiant. There were a few things I'd have tweaked, but the author's writing is solid, with plenty of great scenes and action (and a couple of twists I absolutely did not see coming) so this series still finishes on a strong 3.75/4 stars.