Book Review: The Immortal Gene by Jonas Saul

Sometimes, you just really need to read a book that you can’t put down, especially when there’s a lot of news going on and you need a break. Enter The Immortal Gene by Jonas Saul to fill this role. When you pick up the novel, you think it’s going to be a normal detective novel, but in reality, it’s more than that.  

When I was a teenager and young 20-something, I loved reading John Saul, Dean Koontz, Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Stephen King. The Immortal Gene is a throwback to that era. I love how Jonas Saul weaves together the ordinary with the extraordinary. He draws you in from the first page. Jeffrey Harris, best friend of Jake Wood, heads off on vacation. Jake is commissioned with finding him, and he gets a lot more than he’d bargained for – like having “traces of modified saliva, similar to a predigestant found in snake venom” in his gums.  The brilliance of this novel is the fact that Saul weaves together his story in such a way that you feel very close to the main character in his journey to figure out what the hell is going on.  It’s the perfect novel to read during a summer thunderstorm. 

About The Immortal Gene

• Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: Vesuvian Books (July 17, 2018)

PLAYING GOD HAS CONSEQUENCES.

Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who’s like a brother, and he’s about to marry the girl of his dreams.

Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him. After a freak accident in the Amazon Rainforest, Jake wakes up in the hospital—eighteen months later. Long presumed dead, he discovers his fiancée is married and pregnant, his house was sold, his job is gone, and his partner transferred to another city to become lead detective on a serial killer case.

Jake buys a cabin in the woods and tries to leave the world behind, until his home is broken into and he discovers he was targeted—but why? When Jake’s former partner requests his aid in catching the Blood Eagle Killer, he offers to help find whoever is behind Jake’s recent trouble.

This leads to Fortech Industries, a pharmaceutical company secretly researching a way to create an immortal gene. Now they intend to destroy their only error—Jake Wood—who has become something more than human.

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About Jonas Saul

Jonas Saul has sold over 2 million books. On multiple occasions, he has outranked Stephen King and Dean Koontz on the Amazon Most Popular Top 100 Authors list.

He has traveled extensively throughout the world to scout settings for his thrillers, spending several years between Greece, Italy, Denmark, and Hungary.

Jonas is regularly invited to speak at national writing conferences, teaches writing classes, and offers editorial services.

Find out more about Jonas at his website, and connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.