If I hadn't been carousing by the pool I would have marked this book down as a total waste of time.I was expecting this to be a holiday book, and little more. Secret cloning projects, computer hacking, mysterious multi-billionaire.
However, it turned out to be a quasi-religious "novel" centered on the highly-illogical and completely unexplained fact that Judas Iscariot is still wandering the earth 2,000 years after he supposedly died, has somehow made billions of dollars (again unexplained), used part of said fortune to have someone forge a copy of the Turin Shroud, tricked another someone at The Vatican to allow him access to the real Shroud, swapped 'em, built a secret underground laboratory in Colorado, recruited the world's top cloning experts to extract the DNA from the Shroud and clone, you guessed it, Jesus.
Why he wants to do this is never explained, but that's not the jaw-droppingly stupidest part of the book. In an almost "oh, by the way" manner, volcanoes are going off around the world, a tsunami destroys the whole east coast of the USA, including leveling New York, Washington DC and a number of less deserving cities, and meteors are smashing into Earth releasing deadly viruses - your basic end of the world scenario.
The plot holes are big enough to drive a Hummer through, and I don't mind giving away the details because on no account should you waste any time reading this drivel.
There. Are we clear?
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