"strong speculative fiction"
The Trinity Project involves using superior MRIs to copy
the brain scans of an individual with resolution to the
molecular level and loading the neuro model into a vast
super computer. It would mean a kind of immortality for
the people who had their brains scanned and it would create
an Artificial Intelligence superior to that of man because
it works more effectively and faster. The ethics involved
in such a project are so complex that the US President
appointed Dr. David Tennant to work on the proposal. David had the project suspended when the six scientists
working on it including himself, had their brains scanned
and developed some alarming symptoms. He knows that his
supporter Dr. Andrew Fielding was killed on orders of the
head of the project Peter Godin. What David does not know
is that a second site for the Trinity Project has been
built in New Mexico and that they are only days away from
success. As different law enforcement officials try to
assassinate David and his beautiful psychiatrist Rachel the
duo make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem where David finds the
answers needed to send him to New Mexico and a
confrontation with destiny. Greg Iles has written the best book of his career, a
thriller that is also speculative fiction that postulates
the origin of religion. THE FOOTPRINTS OF GOD is
innovative, intellectually stimulating and so fascinating
in scope that readers will finish it in one sitting. The
hero is a good man who serves as a role model to humanity;
a person readers will root for in his quest for answers to
ethical dilemmas. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 7, 2003
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