Divine Blood: A Novel of Science and Faith

It is an astonishing discovery: a bloodstained burial shroud, entombed in the crumbling walls of an historic French Monastery. Carbon dating concludes the fabric is from the time of Christ. A molecular biologist conducts a daring experiment: the cloning of genetic material recovered from the cloth. Now two men–father Laurent Carriere and scientist Josh Francis–are plunged into he center of a worldwide religious and political power struggle. But even as Washington and the Vatican vie for control of the relic, members of a secret society take steps to reclaim the holy artifact they have sworn to protect–by any means necessary. …a spiritual minefield…exciting and bloody, and bloody well done. –Richard Shelton Dramatic…Hewlett touches upon profound questions and leaves us with some striking images. –Quarterly Review of Biology Selected by the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club