The best thing I can say about this book is that it's a quick read. That means, if you don't like it, it will be over soon. However, I'm not going to recommend you read it...
The main argument is interesting enough: a group of scientists studying genetics and development of treatments for the maladies that come coded in our own DNA, comes across the opportunity to study "the genes of God". In this endeavour, they encounter the opposition of a secret society that keeps watch for the second coming of the Messiah.
The front cover of the book describes it as "Jurassic Park meets Indiana Jones meets the quest for the Holy Grail". Ok, perhaps that's a fair description because there could be a little of each of these elements in there. What is lacking are the thrills it seems to promise. I didn't find any excitement at all in the whole thing. It's fairly predictable and seems to enjoy taking a ride on the blasphemous side. Now, I have nothing against speculations that go against scripture, specially if they are intelligent enough. This was not exactly the case here. If you want something really exciting about secret societies, holy relics and that kind of thing, you'd be much better off reading Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
It seems that the rights have been bought by Disney or Touchstone, so there might be a movie in the works. I recommend you don't spend your time reading this, because if the screen version is decent enough, it will cost you about the same in monetary value and much less in time to get through the story. Hopefully, it may even be more entertaining than the book...
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