Maze master

Format:

Book

Title:

Maze master

Author:

Gear, Kathleen O'Neal author

ISBN:

9781250121998

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.

Physical Description:

ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm

Summary:

LucentB is a retrovirus that's inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai. The brilliant but insane geneticist is leaving clues for Anna and Martin to follow, showing he's truly earned his students' nickname for him: the Maze Master. The search takes Anna and Martin around the world and into a warzone they never imagined. Maze Master's LucentB is based off of the real retrovirus HERV-K, which has caused several plagues over the past 75,000 years, almost wiping out Neanderthals 50,000 years ago, and maybe 30,000 years ago. Modern geneticists consider HERV-K not to be extinct, but rather to be waiting for some trigger to come alive again. With its scientific and archaeological authenticity and suspenseful clues, Maze Master will have readers rushing through its intricate maze to find out the fate of the world in this thrilling adventure.--Provided by Publisher.

Subject(s):

Virus diseases -- Fiction.

Vaccines -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

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Kathleen Gear, who often co-writes with her husband W. Michael Gear, has authored 42 books which have been New York Times, USA Today and international bestsellers. Translated into 29 languages, there are around 17 million copies of her books in print worldwide.LucentB is a retrovirus that's inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai.The brilliant but insane geneticist is leaving clues for Anna and Martin to follow, showing he's truly earned his students' nickname for him: the Maze Master. The search takes Anna and Martin around the world and into a warzone they never imagined.Maze Master's LucentB is based off of the real retrovirus HERV-K, which has caused several plagues over the past 75,000 years. Modern geneticists consider HERV-K not to be extinct, but rather to be waiting for some trigger to come alive again.With its scientific and archaeological authenticity and suspenseful clues, Maze Master will have readers rushing through its intricate maze to find out the fate of the world in this thrilling adventure.

Author Notes

Kathleen Gear began writing full-time in 1986 and has over one hundred non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology, history, writing, and buffalo conservation. She has authored nine novels under her own name, and co-authored thirty-four international bestsellers with her husband, W. Michael Gear. Their books have been translated into twenty-one languages. She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains Mountains of northern Wyoming.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

University of Virginia archeology professor Martin Nadai, the hero of this uninspired Da Vinci Code knockoff from bestseller Gear (The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus, with W. Michael Gear), is the world's leading expert on the Marham-i- Isa, "the legendary healing ointment created by Jesus to heal the sick and raise the dead." Anna Asher, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, claims that the ointment is not only real but can be found in a cave in Egypt's Black Canyon. A terrifying new retrovirus has cropped up in France, and she needs Martin's help in determining its exact location to save humanity. Martin agrees to assist, but he remains skeptical about the source of her certainty that Marham-i-Isa is real-a discredited scientist, James Hakari, who believes that God has spoken to humanity through the genetic code. Predictably, Martin finds himself attracted to Anna, and their lives are imperiled by their search. Gear is no Michael Crichton when it comes to presenting her scientific speculations, making suspension of disbelief a challenge. Agent: Matt Bialer, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Gear, known mostly for her popular historical fiction (especially the First North Americans series, written with her husband, W. Michael Gear), steps into the near future for this tense thriller. A new retrovirus has been unleashed on the world well, new might not be the right word. A geneticist believes LucentB isn't new at all, but rather a modern-day reoccurrence of an ancient virus. The American government believes he's probably right; it also believes he might be the only person who can find a cure. But there are problems. The geneticist has gone into hiding, and there is a very good chance he is insane. The government tasks Anna Asher, a former intelligence operative, with finding the missing man; teaming up with an expert in ancient systems of writing, Anna races against time to follow the clues she believes the geneticist has left for her clues that, she hopes, will lead her to a cure for the deadly virus. Gear is certainly trying something different here, at least in terms of her own writing, but she isn't exactly breaking new ground (this could easily have been, to pick one of many names out of the hat, a James Rollins novel). Still, Gear brings her own voice to the story, her own way of tackling the follow-the-clues format, and the result is a crisply written, lively, and quite satisfying novel anything but a routine addition to an already overpopulated subgenre.--David Pitt Copyright 2018 Booklist