Stel Pavlou
First British Edition Simon & Schuster (2005) |
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Gene
3000 years. Two souls. One Fate
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the bestselling Decipher
Detective James North is called upon to deal with a young, mentally unstable man holding a child hostage at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. When he arrives, he is disturbed to discover that — although the bad guy is a complete stranger - he’s been asking for North by name.
The hostage situation goes wrong, and North finds himself injected with a substance that causes hallucinatory nightmares and flashes of memory that are not his own. He begins to hunt through New York for his attacker, a man he feels inexplicably compelled to kill - a man called Gene.
As he does so, North unlocks the secret of his past, a past that stretches back over 3000 years. Gene is the story of forgotten Greek warrior Cyclades who fought and died in the Trojan Wars, and was fated by the gods to be reincarnated seven times. Locked in a cycle of battle with the Babylonian Magi Athanatos, Cyclades must once again strive to defeat him and thwart his quest to achieve immortality.
Cyclades and Athanatos. North and Gene. But in this incarnation, neither man knows which is which, or why each of them has the instinctive need to kill the other.
Praise for the bestselling Decipher
‘It will satisfy anyone… written by someone who knows what they’re talking about’ Mail on Sunday
‘A fascinating blend of science, my theology, language and much more’ Independent
‘Exhilaratingly imaginative’ Sunday Times
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First British Edition Earthlight (2001) |
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Decipher
Like a jigsaw puzzle of concentric purple circles the image slowly built up until the screen turned more and more purple with each overlay. And what was becoming clearer to everybody was that structure had been revealed within the energy waves. With the exception of the military, a mood of excitement and incredulity filled the room. Cubes. Oblongs. Curved surfaces. All the hallmarks of construction stood out as glitches in the purple. It was intricate. Vast and dense. Like the layout of -
‘That’s a city,’ Scott whispered. ‘Under the goddam ice . . . A lost city!’
‘And somehow,’ Dower said gravely, ‘it appears to be linked to the sun.’
‘Not a lost city. The lost city. Ladies and gentlemen - welcome to Atlantis!’
There is a signal emanating from deep within the ice of Antarctica.
Atlantis has awoken. Ancient monuments all over the world from the Pyramids of Giza, to Mexico to the ancient sites of China are reacting . . . to a brewing crisis not of this earth, but somewhere out in the solar system. Connecting to each other through the oceans. Using low frequency sound waves to create an ancient global network. The earth is thrown into panic stations.
Enter Richard Scott, linguistic anthropologist. Jon Hackett, complexity theorist. Sarah Kelsey, geologist. Ralph Matheson, engineer. Bob Pearce, CIA Agent and ‘Remote Viewer’, and US Marine, Major Lawrence Gant. Together they must make the journey of a lifetime. The fate of the earth rests in their hands.
For it seems that the signals emanating from Atlantis are a prelude to something much greater. Could it be that the entire city is in fact one giant ancient machine? And to what end? For what purpose?
It is the year 2012, the same year Mayan belief prophesied the end of the world. Two armies, American and Chinese, stand on the brink of war for control of the most potent force ever known to man. The secrets of Atlantis. Secrets which are encoded in crystal shards retrieved from the sunken city. Secrets which Mankind has had twelve thousand years to decipher... but which will now destroy it within one week.
In the greatest tradition of Jules Verne, and with the breathtaking depth and pace of Michael Crichton, Stel Pavlou’s Decipher is a roller-coaster ride through an epic of an adventure.
About The Author
Stel Pavlou received a degree from Liverpool University. He recently wrote and co-produced the feature film The 51st State, starring Samuel L Jackson and Robert Carlyle, which will be released in the summer of 2001.
Gene is his second novel. He divides his time between Kent, Cyprus and Norway.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Gene
(Simon & Schuster,
2005)
Jan 05
Decipher
(Earthlight,
2001)
Gene
by Stel Pavlou
