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Summary: Couldn't stop reading!!!
Review: This book is like an action movie with a brain. Utterly engrossing. It has more action than I've ever read, a lot of mystery to keep you reading, and typical but amusing soldier talk. Its written like a good movie script, but a bit over descriptive. The character's are the usual type. A burnt-out, take cahrge soldier boy, intellectual preist, beautiful scientist. The dialouge is also typical, but thats not why you want to keep reading. You want to know why Cain does what he does and how they can defeat him and the outcome. I love the story line and made me want to find out as much as I can about this type of thing. A few character and dialouge flaws aside, a definite reccomendation.
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!! YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!
Review: Huggins hits the target dead center with Cain. For all the fans of The Terminator, Aliens, Predator, this book will get your blood flowing! The story starts out with a top secret bio weapons project gone out of control, as in a lot of other stories. In this experiement, top-notch scientists use the CIA's number 1 secret agent assassin, Roth Tiberius Cain, to create an unstoppable soldier. Cain is dead, but using reanimation, he is brought back to life. Then they make him anything but ordianry fitting him with technological implants and genetic alterations, including internal titanium armor and artificial titanium-cobalt alloy bones, muscle-enhancing steroids, nerual pathway amplifiers, and nervous system stimulants, to make him stronger, faster, more viscious, and more lethal than any ordinary man could be. And along side, Cain's merciless heart and ruthless nature are made even more evil. When Cain escapes from the facility that created him, we learn that a mutated strain of the Marburg virus that has been used to make Cain's ability to regenerate lost and damaged tissue unlimited has caused his DNA to be so heavily damaged that he needs to drink fresh human blood to keep his metabolism balanced. And to make matters even worse, with the mutant strain of the virus, Cain is the carrier of a viral plauge that will wipe out the entire world's population within a year. Only ten days remain until Cain's body mutates the virus beyond control and the outbreak will occur. The only thing that can kill Cain is the original Marburg virus strain. As a group of poeple who have found themselves trapped in the toils and hardships of life struggle to save the world from Cain, they fight against their own differences, their faith in God and religion, their moral principles, for their very lives and for the life of a little girl with whom Cain shares a dark secret.Dr. Martha Milton, though she prefers to be called Maggie, is the beautiful scientist that created Cain. Early in the story we learn that she used the blood from her own six year old daughter, Amy, to rewrite Cain's DNA. This makes Maggie's struggle to stop Cain a purely heart-touching display of motherly love, for Cain needs every drop of Amy's blood in order to stop his body from mutating beyond control. The irony is thick, but that only adds to the suspense and action of the story, as well as the emotion. And along side with Maggie is Colonel James L. Soleman, a soldier who lost his wife and daughter to terrorists. Soleman is not the luckiest of people, for he nearly died while trying to avenge his family's death and in the process, he crossed so many lines of the military law that he ended up leaving the military. LIke Maggie, Soleman is haunted by his past, of what happened, what he lost, and of what may lie ahead. These shared characteristics bring Soleman and Maggie close together as they try to stop Cain and save Amy. As Soleman works with Maggie and a group of others, including a priest and a superior mother, he soon relearns the feeling of loving a child and woman. Everyone's faith in the Lord is put to the test, for Cain believes himself to be the supreame God who can defy the real God. This book so totally awesome! I'm totally surte that it would be a hit movie if it was made into one. Tom Cruise would make a fabulous Soleman and Jeri Ryan would be a perfect Maggie. I would say that the perfect actor for Cain would be Arnold Schwarzenegger. For other Characters, I think Kate Mulgrew would be a great Mother Mary Francis, Katelin Petersen would be a good Amy, and Patrick Stewart is so fitting for the role of Father Marcelle. This cast, is only my personal version of course. Anyway, for all you action fans out there who love tales of acton, danger, emotion, and destiny, this is a book you will love. This book will blow you away!
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Summary: A Great B Movie
Review: This book is a fast read and would be a great script for B Sci Fi movie. I picked up this book because of the alluded religious/Sci Fi thriller. This is an action book, and not a mystery thriller. Basically you have evil being that possesses the scientifically enhanced body of a dead former CIA operative who was at his peak form at death, set free upon the world. And the hero, who is set upon stopping him with the help of the Catholic Church. Some of the book is written well. The action is non-stop. And the storyline is very easy to follow. The book has a good basis. The bad thing is that the author has not seemed to do his research. Not on the medical advancements he tries to use for the enhancement of the body. Nor in the geographic locations he inaccurately describes. But it is a fun read non-the less. Pick it up if you have a 2-hour flight. It will pass the time quickly.
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Summary: A dissappointing action/horror experience
Review: PERSPECTIVE: sci-fi/fantasy/horror fan, unfamiliar with Huggins' work Its unfortunate that I come away from this book disliking it, as I tried hard... really hard... to find the goodness in it. What hooked me into initially picking it up was the cool concept - an evil being possesses the scientifically enhanced body of a dead former CIA operative, and just what those responsible were going to do about it. As I read, I was also intrigued by the pseudo-science surrounding just what makes Cain tick, and what ultimately needs to be done to stop him. Some things were done well, as some of the action sequences are reasonably thrilling, and Huggins' writing style is very straightforward and easy to follow. Unfortunately, that's all I can say from a positive standpoint. The novel is essentially a screenplay for a B-level action/horror movie. Both protagonists and antagonists have meaningful things to say at times, but every chapter, and towards the end, every section, seem to end with a snappy one-liner ("I'm going to see if a dead man can die", etc...) or some dramatic sub-cliffhanger statement that remind me more of a bad film script than a novel. The characters aren't completely static, but it is almost transparently predictable as to what the ultimate fate of every main character will be from early on in the book. A lot of the situations seem somewhat contrived, as Huggins seems to make some of the players do momentarily irrational things in order to advance the plot or further a situation. All of the above would have been more forgivable if it weren't set into a background of pseudo-science that, while convincing to the average layperson, is just plain inaccurate, coming from a biology/medical background. The same can be said for the religious ideas presented - it's okay "pop mythology" for a B-movie, but to have this as the basis for a novel just doesn't fly with readers with any theological training. All in all, this wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but the most disappointing aspect was that the cool ideas were only mediocrely researched and presented, and dragged down by contrived drama and a story that while fun at times, wasn't well-developed enough to make me care. FINAL WORD: Don't read this book - life's too short and there are too many good-to-great novels out there to waste your time on this.
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Summary: AWESOME!!!
Review: A GREAT story! A GREAT Author! I can't wait to read more by Huggins. This story has it all...mystery, suspense, action, and intrique. Top it off with a great biblical message and a true-to-life depiction of Satan's demeanor. I would highly suggest this book to anyone who likes action thrillers.
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Summary: GREAT!!!
Review: I couldn't put the book down. It is fiction, some things are a little on the edge of possibility, but afterall, it is a FANTASY/SCI-FI book. VERY entertaining. I am going to read everything this author has written!!
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Summary: Remarkable...that such drivel actually got published!
Review: This is hack writing of the lowest form, a "Christian" version of "Terminator 2." You've got the bad terminator, Cain, out to kidnap and kill a child, and you've got the good terminator, Soloman out to stop him, and you've got the child's mom along for the ride. Not only is it bereft of an original thought, it is stupid beyond belief. At one point there's a car chase in Los Angeles and the hero's car plummets off a bridge into a RAGING RIVER! Any moron knows there are no rivers in L.A. and the only excuse our city has for one is the storm drain known as the L.A. River --- but in October, when the story takes place, there is NEVER ANY WATER IN IT! The author also wants us to believe that the Vatican stores some of its most priceless documents in L.A. at our Museum of Natural History. I could go on and on about how moronic this book is, but I wasted enough time reading the godawful thing to want to spend any more time writing about it. Read this one only if you enjoy having your intelligence insulted.
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Summary: The Cain layout
Review: Cain is a formerly dead agent, who was brought back to life by a top-secret government expirement. During the expirement, he was equipped with internal body armor, the speed of a racehorse, and the strength of 50 people. During the resurection, lucifer takes over the body, and breaks out. Now he's after a child which holds the key to making him immortal. Until then, the only thing that can kill him until then is the Marburg virus. A Priest, a scientist, and a soldier are the only ones that can save Earth now.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: The action was great, the plot was good, and the characters were incredible. James huggins knows what he is talking about from weapons to hand to hand. I loved it.
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Summary: This is what action should be
Review: After reading this book, I thought it would be a definite movie. First you got Cain who would easily be played by Van Disel (the guy from Pitch Black), Soloman played by Hugh Jackman (wolverine of x-men), but thats just my opinion. James Huggins is a brilliant writer who takes you on a jouney of good vs. evil and gives you every gruesome detail that makes it oh so much better to read.
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