This could have been a great book! I love my trashy "historical" thrillers as much as anyone, but this book dropped the ball at chapter 35, when it decided to spend less time on the mystery and more time on [spoilers] human sacrifice. I GET IT, the killer is one big intelligent bad-ass, but the m...
The Eradication of the Cagots. People of Basque region ancestry begin getting murdered around the globe as two young me set out to uncover the mystery of the conspiracy. Ceding back to Genesis and the allusion to other humans outside the Adam and Eve chain--the Serpent Seed--the untoward differen...
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, not as much as his debut novel but it is up there. The mix of history, mysterey and murder create a strong storyline and the twist of at the end turns everything on its head. The incorporation of science and religion into a mystery of evolution makes for a great st...
Maybe less. It was an exciting adventure story, but there was a rather virulent strain of anti-Catholicism throughout (though the author tried to exorcise it at the very end), and the ending left a lot to be desired, with at least one thing still up in the air. The author also used a lot of arc...
The book is horror with some supernatural so i shouldd have expected the scenes of graphically described violent death. There are also a couple of very bad sex scenes at which ppoint I really lost it. There are also a few cliffhangers which get saved by the cavalry last in time. so that is why ...