The Immortal Gene
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- $1.99
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- $1.99
Publisher Description
PLAYING GOD HAS CONSEQUENCES.
Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who's like a brother, and he's about to marry the girl of his dreams.
Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him. After a freak accident in the Amazon Rainforest, Jake wakes up in the hospital—eighteen months later. Long presumed dead, he discovers his fiancée is married and pregnant, his house was sold, his job is gone, and his partner transferred to another city to become lead detective on a serial killer case.
Jake buys a cabin in the woods and tries to leave the world behind, until his home is broken into and he discovers he was targeted—but why? When Jake's former partner requests his aid in catching the Blood Eagle Killer, he offers to help find whoever is behind Jake's recent trouble.
This leads to Fortech Industries, a pharmaceutical company secretly researching a way to create an immortal gene. Now they intend to destroy their only error—Jake Wood—who has become something more than human.
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This entertaining, if contrived, supernatural thriller series launch from Saul (the Sarah Roberts series) pits Canadian detective Jake Wood against a brutal serial killer and a mysterious company, Fortech Industries. Jeffery Harris, the Blood Eagle Killer, has selected, killed, and kept the corpse of one victim every two years for the last decade. His latest conquest brings him into the jurisdiction of Jake and his partner, Kirk Aiken. Jake vows to find the killer, but he's called away to the Amazon jungle to help his friend, Luke. After Jake is bitten by a snake, he falls into a coma. Awakening 18 months later, Jake learns that everything about his life has changed, including his own body, which is becoming snakelike. Jake's physical transformation is intriguing, and his use of his new skills to pursue the Blood Eagle Killer keeps events moving at a brisk pace, but several unaddressed questions (why a successful serial killer would change his m.o. after a decade, what exactly Jake's relationship with Luke is) undermine the story, and graphic descriptions of bodily mutilations may put some readers off. Saul knows how to ratchet up the tension and keep pages turning, but his inconsistent plotting is disappointing.
