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The Genesis Code

Michael Crichton meets Dan Brown in this novel of therealsecret code hidden in human DNA.

Nobel Prize—winning geneticist Joshua Ambergris has made an astounding discovery that will shake the foundations of science: He has discovered a coded text hidden in human DNA.

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Before Ambergris can change the course of history by announcing his incredible discovery, he is brutally murdered in his office at Triad Genomics, an international biotech company. Ambergris has left behind a labyrinthine series of clues that ultimately reveals the truth:There is a message from a much earlier, more sophisticated human civilization encoded in the human genome!

Who planted this code eons ago? And why? And can it be decoded before it's too late? Ambergris's protege, Christian Madison, and his assistant, Grace Nguyen, must follow the serpentine trail to uncover a global conspiracy of silence, secrecy, and murder that spans the breadth of human history.

A shadowy group known only as the Order guards the ancient secret enciphered in the mythologies and architecture of Earth's oldest civilizations and encoded into the very fabric of human DNA. Ambergris's clues lead Madison and Nguyen through the mysteries of the Maya and ancient Egypt, the forgotten knowledge of Sumeria, and the enigmas of modern science. Pursued at every turn by Ambergris's killers, Madison and Nguyen race to uncover the secrets of the Genesis Code before the Order can carry out the final, sinister step of a genocidal plan.

Driven by scientific fact and new interpretations of ancient writings, symbolism, and mythology culled from thousands of years of human history,The Genesis Codedigs deeply into the questions of therealnature of the human DNA code.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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