Product Description

Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge. His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right-wing fundamentalist hit-squad to rid the world of all evidence of it. The discovery originates from a confession in a remote village in Italy. A confession that sends the local priest into a panic and the Vatican into an uproar. The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic - a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world. Women who were infertile until they attended the clinic. Lassiter must discover the remaining mothers before the hit men, and meanwhile his sister's killer is on the loose...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158545 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
You'll probably guess what's behind the murders of mothers and their very young sons long before investigator Joe Lassiter does, but that shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of this exciting and thoughtful new thriller that mixes science and faith with action. Lassiter's own sister and beloved nephew are among the victims, who were all patients at an Italian fertility clinic run by a doctor with some unusual ideas about DNA. Why this catches the attention of a dangerous religious order, and whether Lassiter can save one surviving woman and child from their wrath, should take up a good part of your night.

Customer Reviews

A thriller as it should be: a page turner for 500 pages
Wow, what a book! I could not put it down. This is a real page turner. The plot is excellent, one is drawn into the story with page one. The characters are well created and the whole plot develops in a fascinating, fast-moving way. Religion and medical development - a great theme as a background. The religious dimension is not as strong as in more recent thrillers but I found this more appealing. This is a real thriller and no pseudo-religious book.

It was a real pleasure reading it!!! Till the very last the tension is kept.
The authors - John Case is just a nom de plume (and an awful one one might add) - have written an amazing book which I can only recommended.

One last comment: why does every thriller have to be compared and judged by the Da Vinci Code? There is no need for this and the Da Vinci Code - as good as it is - is not the ultimate reference. These authors can easily hold their own among the major writers of thrillers

Read, Read...READ!!!
This book demands your total and undivided attention from the first page. The Genesis Code snakes its way through the physical, the metaphysical and the increasing eventuality of the possible.

In his novel, John Case challenges not only the very soul of Christianity but also the essence of the origins of the human race, and how science has unlocked it's ancient secrets. The main character, Lassister a high-flying Private Eye, tasks himself to find the killer of his sister and her young nephew.

His journey takes him from his descreet contacts in Washington to a dark and ominous sect in Europe. All over the world people, women and children, are being murdered - but for what reason? A confession in a remote Italian village church ignites a fire of controversy that has the potential of turning what we commonly accept into ashes. Fast behind are people willing to do anything to put the fire firmly out.

The Genesis Code is one BIG andrenlin rush and I advise anyone with a strong constitution to read it...before it's too late! M E Murphy

A cracking read
I picked this up when I was on the last day of a summer Holiday and finished it a few hours later. I just kept turning the page again and again.

I would recommend this to any one interested in conspiracy theory thrillers.

The last hundred pages or so, aren't the best, but they're not bad. I just felt that the ending was a little bit rushed.

See if you can guess the ending. I didn't.