Cain

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Summary: GREAT!
Review: Darn! This was a good book.I bought this bbok not because it looked good but because the day after I bought it a huricane was coming and I was going to be without electricity for a while.Thank God I bought it this is the best book I have read in a long time.The action is fast paced and naration is excelent.I heard that Bruce Willis bought the rights to the book.I hope he makes the movie because if someone can do solomon is him.I think Huggins wrote this with a screenplay in mind. Great action.

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Summary: finally , something different
Review: From the first chapter in this book you will be captivated by it. If you're like me and am tired of horror books that use second grade vocabulary, then you must read Cain. The first chapter sets the stage for this breathless action/horror/mystery story with a very different setting. Since most horror books open in the everyday life in the city, or in a haunted house somewhere out in the boonies, or some one running away from something, this book was a huge relief. Another nice thing about this book is that James Byron Huggins doesn't just use a bunch of bull sh** terms and words that aren't real. Some of the weapons mentioned ( including Spas shotguns with ammo of 12 gauge with C-4 heads, napalm, Grizzly .50, the air craft used, the Grimorium Verum, etc.) exist in real life. And the name of the main character (Solomon) has something do with the religious aspect of this book. The biblical David named his son Solomon. So, basically, this book is almost more reality than fiction. Throughout the book, the stage is being set for the final battle, which is amazing. The final confrontation is a gory, emotional, and fearless fight to the death. And the surprise ending just comes out of nowhere. It's something that you would never expect. So if you want to read a book that you will not be able to put down, with loss of faith, sacrifice, big explosions, fire, hideous beings, and a little romance, you must read Cain.

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Summary: Killer book
Review: Great book,could'nt put down after that I read it again and again and again.All I got to say is I'm hooked on the action.

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Summary: Shoot Him Already
Review: Here comes the formula...the old warrior punishing himself because he lost his wife and little daughter, the self-questioning Jesuit priest, the good looking scientist babe and her little daughter. See where this is going yet? Cain, supercharged and dyno-tuned, is the six million dollar man with a silly religious twist. Cain can rip through steel, run like a cheetah and throw dice with the best of them. Of course the protagonist (name of Solomon no less) is much tougher. He fights with Cain with regularity and never really gets hurt. The Jesuit priest must have seen "The Exorcist" one time too many as he wields his silver crucifix and slips into the thees and thous of King James English. I won't even go into the Mother Superior nervously fingering her rosary beads. If you wasted time with this tripe; perhaps you wondered (as I did),why the government just didn't call in a sniper with a tranquilizer gun..... I know this book put me to sleep!

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Summary: Still Waiting
Review: Huggins can write. In fact, he can overwrite--and he does so liberally. His words can paint a great picture, but he refuses to trust the reader with a few adjectives; he seems to think an overdosage is required. There: that's off my chest.

The basic story is compelling, and certain scenes come vividly to life in the imagination. I appreciated the good vs evil aspects and felt he handled them well without turning them into sermonettes.

Unfortunately, as in Leviathian, I felt he ran out of plot. He keeps the story going with one, or two, or three more incidents of the monster rising again from the rubble. It's similar to a thrill-ride on a careless action flick--it's fun while it lasts, but when it's over, you feel vaguely empty.

Huggins seems to have found a niche, and he has the skill to portray his ideas. I only wish he would flesh out the characters more, and leave some of the imagery for us readers to flesh out on our own.

Meanwhile, I'll wait for the intelligent thriller I know he has brewing somewhere inside. In my opinion, he hasn't served that one up quite yet.

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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: Terminator, Exorcist, and Die Hard all rolled into one!
Review: I am an avid reader. Usually read three books a week. Just ask my wife, we can't afford to buy as many books as I love to read. But out of all the books I've seen, if I had to choose one book to keep with me, and that was the only book I could ever read again, then I'd take Cain. I have read and reread Cain at least ten times, and I always tell people to go buy it, and read it. One of the greatest disappointments of the book has nothing to do with the writing. It is that there is a promised movie coming out, and was supposed to be out in 2001 with Schwartzenegger and Willis together playing the parts of Cain and Solomon respectively. Would have crushed anything in the theaters at the time. I want to see this movie! That is my only complaint. If you liked this one, read Hunter, it's almost better!

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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: 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: Cussing,what a let down!
Review: I loved "The Reckoning" ALOT and people I loaned the book loved it too. But I picked up Cain, Theres way too much cussing for a religious themed writer. I loaned The Reckoning to a friend and she loved it also,she picked up Cain at the library and said the same thing, What a downfall from a great book to that!!!!