The Eighth Day: A Thriller

by John Case

Book Overview

"And on the Seventh Day, He rested."
-Genesis, 2: 2-3

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Syndrome, here is a spellbinding new thriller of international intrigue, religious prophecy, cutting-edge science, and unrelenting suspense.

For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part-time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345433114
• ISBN13: 9780345433114
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Really good. No really, really good

Great characters that you grow to care about. Interesting plot. Good story. I couldn't put the book down (and have since finished his "The First Horseman"- also great). I was really impressed by this book. I'm now a hooked fan.

Once again

Case (or whatever his real name is) once again is able to blend science and fiction and at he same time raise important issues about emerging technology. Just as his musing on DNA and virology have begun to surface, nanotechnology will prove also to be a two edged sword. I have always felt Case was better connected to what is going on than the rest of us.

Case does it again!

Having read all of the current Case books including the NY Times bestseller The Genesis Code, as well as Jim Hougan's previous works (Hougan and wife use the name Case as a writing team)I was not disappointed in this latest effort. As with all of the Case novels, the themes and plot lines are current and timely. The story keeps you enthralled and turning pages. Obviously those whose "intelligence" was put to a test must have felt the same or they would have put the book down and walked away. Case presents characters who are real world examples and not perfect superheros.Well done. Looking forward to the next one.

The Eighth Day read in one.

See book description above.A John Case novel never seems to disappoint my reading fix. His scientific thrillers are timely, and once you start reading, hard to put down.One of the main subjects in the book is nanotechnology. This subject has been the theme of several books over the last couple years but Case does a superb job by taking you all over the world on an adventure that includes everything from 'The Contrade' (a brutal horse race in Italy) to the land of the Kurds. There is also talk of Yezidis', Anchorites, 'Black Writing', and more.A well rounded thriller sure to keep you entertained.Highly recommended.

AN EXPLOSIVE, ADDICTIVE TAUTLY PENNED THRILLER

Explosive and addictive, a taut, sharply penned thriller from page 1 to startling finish - that's John Case's fourth novel. While the author surely proved himself with "The Syndrome," "The First Horseman," and the New York Times bestseller "The Genesis Code," he exceeds all expectations with his latest, a hard-driving journey propelled by international intrigue and amazing technological advances. Danny Cray is a 28-year-old artist with hair enhanced by spiky blond highlights (thanks to girlfriend, Caliegh) and three piercings in his left ear (thanks to himself). He's a sculptor and video artist who has just been offered a showing at Neon, a prestigious gallery. To make ends meet he has been moonlighting as a private investigator for Fellner Associates; now he needs to come up with enough art to make a proper presentation - some expensive new equipment would help. It seems almost serendipitous when he receives a call from a wealthy attorney, Jude Belzer, asking him to do a little work for him. According to Belzer, a powerful, super-rich Italian businessman, Zerevan Zabek, is the target of unfounded slander. Belzer wants to keep this assignment separate from his other dealings with Fellner, and asks Danny to take it on solo, tracing the smears to their source. Naive is a good description of Danny when he first meets Belzer - what attorney has a phalanx of bodyguards? Nonetheless, the proposition is too tempting, too easy, and too lucrative. Danny grabs it. He's instructed to find out all that he can about a professor of religious studies who died recently, evidently by sealing himself alive in a concrete vault. Belzer insists that if Danny can get to the late professor's papers, his files, all will come to light. But, instead of light there's darkness, a sinister darkness as a man the professor called on the day he died also turns up dead. A FedEx receipt in the professor's trash indicates that he sent his computer to a priest in Rome stationed at the Vatican. End of assignment, or so Danny believes. Belzer is in Rome, and he can simply look up the priest, retrieve the computer, and solve the mystery. But, no, Belzer wants Danny to go to Rome and get the computer. Ten thousand dollars plus $800 per day is more than the young artist can turn down. But, what could this computer hold? He boards a plane for Rome, where he meets his interpreter, Paulina, "a dark beauty, thirty at the outside, with the kind of high-gloss glamour that costs real money." His suite at a luxe hotel has every imaginable accouterment, yet he has unknowingly placed himself in jeopardy, his fate to be determined by Zabek, a man who had a way of "killing people that gave dying a bad name." From Rome with all of its glories Danny's quest takes him to Istanbul, and a terrifying encounter in an underground cistern. From there he travels to a remote Turkish border town, still searching for answers, and only one step ahead of those who would kill him. John Case i