Cain

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Summary: A Golem named Cain, built like Frankenstein? Read on!
Review: You knew when you heard the biblical names of Soloman & Cain--that you were in for an evil battle of epic proportions. Indeed, you get just that, oh and a nanosecond of a romance. James Byron Huggins has managed to slam every nightmare you've ever had into this tall tale. We've got "CAIN," (a Golem really, and the antichrist fused into SuperMan), with some real satanical tendencies, who just happens to be a vampire (nightmares run amok in this book) and needs blood to replenish his strength every time he beats the crap out of Soloman, or gets shot more times than any gangster in Los Angeles. Not only does this monster suck blood, have the "unholy" strength of 100 men, and some evil castle dwelling minions, but he has the help of technology with his titanium reinforced body parts, and an internal (Marburg) viru-bomb set to detonate in 10 days. Could Huggins put any more of our darkest fears into a worse package? Of course we really don't hate Cain until he messes with the Catholic Church. That was his biggest mistake! Our hero, Soloman has his work cut out for him. Licking some old wounds suffered when he lost his wife & child, this ever intense, one-man army is enlisted to stop Cain. Soloman's sidekicks are nowhere nearly as formidable, but Huggins does give us a couple of great archetypical characters in the General, the safehouse soldier, the priest, and the innocent child, who happens to be the daughter of the very woman (Dr. Milton) who created Cain in the laboratory using her own daughter's blood. What irony! Well, some of it may be predictable, but it is a tortuous ride to see when the good guys will bring the bad guys down and who will lose their lives in the battle. The mayhem starts so quickly in the book, that you are sure it will go nowhere because -- how much more can our hero endure? So you keep turning the pages. You turn them so quickly you miss the romance. What romance? You won't be sorry you took "CAIN" to the beach or on your subway commute home. -- D.