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NEPHILIM SEED
by James Scott Bell
Broadman and Holman, May 2001
373 pages
$12.99
ISBN: 0805424385


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This fervently Christian mystery doubles as an action-packed medical thriller. On his way to debate biological scientist Bently Davis on the Today Show on the subject of intentional creation versus evolution, Dr. Sterling Brown is murdered. His brother, Jed, a bounty hunter, takes on the task of finding the murderer.

Janice Taylor is in the midst of a messy divorce and custody fight she never wanted. When her husband, Sam Ramsey, became cold and aloof, Janice thought her faith in God would help her keep her marriage intact, but Sam had other ideas. Then their 10-year-old daughter Lauren was abducted right out of the supermarket in broad daylight, and Sam accused Janice of negligence. Lauren prayed for the courage of Daniel in this lion廣 den and kept trying to escape. Finally, she slipped out the bathroom window of the remote cabin where she was being held and ran right into her father廣 waiting arms. It turns out that Sam was behind the kidnapping all the time.

Bently Davis and his top students are involved in an experiment to increase their mental capacity with the intent of turning into a super race like the Nephilim in the Bible. Sam Ramsey was one of Davis廣 early recruits and offered his intelligent daughter to Davis in exchange for eternal injections of the synthetic gene to enhance his mind. One of the essential parts of Davis廣 theory is that the space taken up in the brain by religious impulses could be replaced with more efficient mental power. The God drive in human consciousness was a waste of cognitive space.

The young men taking the injections were smarter and clearer thinking than ever before. But side effects begin to surface in some of the addicted recruits: demonic visions, violence, headaches, and suicidal tendencies. Still, UniGen, Davis廣 corporate laboratory, forges ahead with the plan to make Lauren the first juvenile experiment. Janice廣 desperate search for her daughter brings her into the path of Jed Brown廣 search for his brother廣 murderer. Jed廣 skills cannot mask the fact that he has a dark secret in his past and Janice must trust God廣 hand now as never before. Enlisting the aid of a weird computer genius called Data, Jed combs the files of UniGen for clues. Lawyer Janice uses her legal skills to get the trio out of jail at one point. Frantically, they try to unravel the tangled leads to reach Lauren in time to save her from becoming a human guinea pig.

The suspense level builds in this fast paced novel until the reader is turning pages as fast as possible. Janice, Lauren, and Jed are well-rounded characters whose lives become important to us. The good guys and the bad guys are very black and white; Godless scientists are pure evil and the Christians are very good. Jed is the only crossover between believer and nonbeliever. This book really pulls you in and won廠 let you go.

Reviewed by Kay Muther, August 2001

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