Marianna S. (Angeloudi) reviewed on 4/3/2010 + 160 more book reviews

Robin Cook, the master of medical thrillers, tries to combine medical aspects to this story which is a DaVinci Code wannabe. It concerns an archaeologist's find of a "fake artifact" which turns out to be real, and the highly improbable theft of this item (an ossuary with some papyrus scrolls)out of Rome and back to NYC, where he just happens to be friends with the Chief Medical Examiner and also the Roman Catholic Cardinal of New York. His wife, also is a molecular geneticist studying mitrochondrial DNA will examine the bones to see if the remains indeed belong to Mary, the Virgin mother of Jesus Christ himself. The Cardinal wants to suppress the finding, as it will shake up the Catholic belief of infallibility of popes. The premise of this novel is far-fetched, although it started off well in a souk in Egypt where the archaeologist finds the artifacts. It took me a very long time to finish this book, but finish it I did. The ending was rather predictable, but it did tie up all lose plot lines neatly.
Next time, Cook should stick to the medical genre.

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