Reviewing my files I found a review I wrote long ago on "Blasphemy" , the latest book by Douglas Preston alone, and I never ever post any site. I am a great fan of the novels he writes with his friend Preston Lincoln Child, led by the adventures of Agent Pendergast ineffable, but This book also has a very interesting point that will make us think. And so ended a very warm July, full of thrills and good times to remember.
We face a real thriller in the same scientific tone of some of the best works of the late Michael Crichton, with a touch of suspense that allows us to enjoy a provocative plot, leading to limit the controversy between science and religion. This time Preston leaves the profitable novels written for four hands with Lincoln Child to jump without a parachute with a story that can make a big controversy.
The plot takes place in Arizona, in a desert area within the Navajo Indian Reservation in South America. The U.S. government has built there the Isabella, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, in a huge abandoned coal mines. They have spent forty billion taxpayer dollars to implement a unique experiment: the recreation of the Big Bang, the alleged explosion that gave birth to the universe.
In an underground bunker with the most sophisticated means are being held twelve of the world's most famous scientists, led by Dr. Hazelius, eminent physicist awarded the Nobel. The lack of results, work exhausted for weeks and the fact of being so far from civilization makes sparks fly in their relationships. They feel pressured politically, but fail to bring Isabella at maximum power, and found an anomaly in the program that will ask all their beliefs.
The government tries to put a former CIA spy, Wyman Ford, making him pass by anthropologist who will liaise with surrounding communities, with which there are frictions. The old Ford's love affair with the deputy director of the program, Kate Mercer, will bring more headaches than help in his mission. And what you find inside the bunker you will consider whether or not on the right side.
His problems will multiply the knowledge that a televangelist echoes the experiment. In his television attacks the American government and the promoters of Isabella, saying the attempt to recreate the moment of the Big Bang is blasphemous and goes against the Christian idea of \u200b\u200bGenesis. Argues that only God has the power to create the world and humans with his evolutionary ideas lead mankind into the disaster.
A fundamentalist pastor who works in the Navajo believed saw the light of God that guides you to your own bliss. He claims that the Christian masses to join fight the Antichrist, as embodied by Hazelius, and destroy the particle accelerator and all that entails in particular Armageddon. The contest is served.
In this work we face the dilemma between science and religion, but also a fierce critic to the American establishment, and the fundamentalist Christians away from the Catholic branch. It also shows us the enormous power of viral marketing, because a letter sent by mail by Pastor Eddy becomes a matter of hours in a bombshell that people over fifty thousand websites, calling Christians to fight against Satan. The problem is that a feverish crowd ignores the visionary of Christ and attacks against the established power without considering the consequences.
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The plot is thoroughly documented and is not heavy for the layman, leading by the hand through the amazing discovery that takes place inside the bunker. The complexity of the situation we are told lived there in all its splendor, feeling a character in the recreation of the experiments conducted there. The characters are nicely shaped and the plot takes on a feverish pace as it nears the final moment.
A good novel that leaves twisted puppet head on his merciless criticism. In my opinion is more stark, "The Da Code Vinci ", although in this case does not attack the Vatican and the Roman curia, but the various branches pseudo Christian have so much power in America, or the Church of Scientology. Not to mention the unfortunate role of government in any disaster, the author reminds us without hesitation.
Definitely a thriller in every sense of the word, which also helps us to reflect on certain aspects of life, allowing us to enjoy a pleasant and entertaining reading.
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