Despite his inner questioning and the substantial threats that Hunter receives: on a scale way beyond anything he has experienced previously, Hunter's journalistic instincts will not allow him to give up his search for this crucial evidence. There's plenty of action and points where you definitely have to suspend your disbelief, but it's a really enjoyable read. It's a fairly long novel so really settle in and lose yourself in this fun, really entertaining read. There is a contradiction here. The search is based on finding true relics of Jesus Christ would lead to mankind believing in God, restore peace and harmony and save the world. Others fear that such discoveries would cause disharmony amongst Christian factions, and these findings based on Christian beliefs would not persuade the other major religions to accept the absolute proof of God. In short avoid this book. It has a meandering and unconvincing plot, characters that are simply laughable (even the peripherals such as Ainsley Bloor, Big Tony - yes, REALLY, Harry F Cook and Wesley Wenceslas are all caricatures) and so many holes in the research that it is really a chore to read. At first I found this difficult to get into, but once I identified the different characters I was completely hooked!!!

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I have no problem with fantastical novels - after all I gave 5 Stars to Michael Rutger's The Anomaly! Though I appreciate authors like to flex their muscles by writing a different genre from time to time. His father ran the business as well as an accountant. His sister Genevieve now runs the company along with her husband. He attended Charterhouse School and later attended Ravensbourne Film School. James spent a few years working in North America as a film producer and screenwriter. He got his start in 1970 on the Canadian children’s television show Polka Dot Door as an errand boy and later writer. He cofounded Movision Pictures in the nineties. The book races on to the ultimate question ‘is there absolute proof’ with these clues that God exists and....well, I will leave that for you to find out...

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The main character is supposed to be this high flying investigative journalist. Why then is he so credulous and naive? He seems intent to rehash what is going on to anyone that so much as looks at him when you would think he would be keeping his cards close to his chest. His deductive leaps that the finds at Glastonbury and in Egypt are remnants of Jesus Christ are farcical and that then becomes canonical for the remaining third or so of the book - all that is proven are that there is a genetic match. No caveat that with the age of the samples and natural degradation that so few alleles would be recovered that a match is tenuous at best. I am not even sure that DNA extraction from a single tooth of the supposed age of this one would reveal enough DNA to test but found that I couldn't even dig up the wherewithal to research the current advances in extraction technology. Go into this story with an open mind. Some of the plot is convenient, especially the DNA matches. But I’m no DNA expert so maybe it is feasible. I loved the complex plot and the race against the large corporations. The phone call that could ultimately change the whole of mankind, is from an elderly gentleman claiming that he has absolute proof of God’s existence, and he believes Ross is the only person who can help him get the message out there, and ultimately save the world! I haven’t listened to a whole lot of audiobooks during my 10 years of book blogging. I am a much faster reader so listening to audiobooks seems frustrating for me because I can speed read faster than someone can read to me.

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Born again evangelist Wesley Wenceslas has built a multi-million dollar business around his style of religion, preaching all over the world. Would Hunter’s discoveries ruin his empire and show Wesley as a phoney? The writing is elaborate and fast-paced. The characters are troubled, tireless, and multifaceted. And the plot is an intricate tale that will have you contemplating the possible final resting place of historical artefacts, the complexity, and significance of DNA testing and our genetic ancestry, and the enormous effects and implications actual proof of God would have on various organizations around the world.

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Ross Hunter recieves a phone call from a man of questionable sanity who tells him that he can lrove Gods existance. Ross's natural natural curiosity gets the better of him . Dr Harry Cook is a retired professor and he asks Ross not to dismiss him as a crazy old man. Ross is always on the lookout for his next big scoop and he's gradually becoming intrigued as he wants to prove the possibility of Gods existance, especially with others also showing an intrest. Ross I'd hoping that this is going to be the biggest story of his career. Hunter experiences inner turmoil. As an agnostic, his own belief system is called into question when he has an other-worldly experience of his own, leading him to question the existence of a higher intelligence.

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I know this is going to sound strange, but I’ve recently been given absolute proof of God’s existence – and I’ve been advised there is a writer, a respected journalist called Ross Hunter, who could help me to get taken seriously.’

What follows is a compelling story of murder and mystery told in multiple plot lines running parallel to the main story then diverging with a race against time that ends in multiple deaths.