Cloning

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Summary: New Age Thriller
Review: Monica Payton's new thriller is exciting and informational combination science and power, lust and greed. She uses her knowledge of "what's up" in medical science for the layman while giving a chilling warning about things that could happen in the future if left ucchecked. Monica's love of humanity shows up strongly in her heroine's and hero's who fight with all the charecter and moral values needed to keep the masses free of tyrants who would try to rule the world, riveting and spellbinding, a must read

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Summary: The Tuskeegee experiment meets Star Wars
Review: Monica Payton's novel, Cloning has broken new ground for Black authors by bringing a medical theme to fiction while educating her readers. She has created a wonderfully monstrous character in California native Dr. Kevin Diamond who is on a business trip, quite coincidentally, in New York City on September 11, 2001, during the 9/11 terrorist attack on America. The intrigue of this doctor transporting human embryos, and the suggestion that terrorists seek to take control of his highly coveted cloning research, forced me to keep turning the pages.

The story's premise is built around Dr. Diamond, who is hell bent on getting his human embryos to various infertility clinics. He fights his way through a long list of adversaries, including the government officials who sponsored him, and his own natural clone, who I stumbled upon while racing through Payton's novel. It's a medical thriller unlike anything I've ever read.

It's unsettling to discover how close to reality this novel approaches. The plausibility of the government's involvement in financing a human cloning experiment is very convincing (shades of the Tuskegee experiment).

Payton scares me, writing about such things as cloning (people), stem cell research (growing body parts) and bio-banking (the ability the live forever)...all of which just happen to parallel much of today's headline news. Consider California's proposition 71, wherein a $3-billion bond to finance stem cell research was recently passed. This means California will soon become established as the stem cell capital of the nation (exporting body parts).

Life truly imitates art, as Payton, one of our newest novelists explains away many of today's, difficult to decipher, hot button issues and spins a web of fiction and reality in Cloning that I found unable to put down until I found out the fate of the outrageous Dr. Kevin Diamond and his human clones.

Cloning is suspenseful and action packed, with many surprises throughout. I would say futuristic, too, but it really isn't.

I hope it makes the big screen. Cloning is a must read.