Gene (novel)
Novel by Stel Pavlou / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gene is a thriller novel by Stel Pavlou (born 1970), published in 2005 in England by Simon & Schuster.[1] It is published in several languages with some title changes. The Italian edition has the title La Cospirazione del Minotauro (The Minotaur Conspiracy). The novel is about a fictional New York detective, James North, who in the process of hunting down a criminal, uncovers a genetics experiment to unlock past lives through genetic memory, therefore achieving a kind of immortality. In so doing North discovers his own origins, that of a soldier from the Trojan War who is reincarnated seven times through history, forced to confront his nemesis each time, all for the loss of his one true love.
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