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Praise for "The Miracle Strain":
" "Jurassic Park" meets... "Raiders of the Lost Ark,"" - "Mail on Sunday" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
" "Jurassic Park" meets... "Raiders of the Lost Ark,"" - "Mail on Sunday" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Observer
‘A well constructed thriller...delivers right down the line from initial concept, through fast action to explosive finale…sheer entertainment’
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the first book I've read by this author and I now intend to read his other works. To confirm what others have said - this is a solid, easy to read unputdownable thriller. The characters are pretty simple to understand (but why should that be a bad thing) and the storyline is a little far-fetched (but that's part of the attraction).
The story centres on a new computing technology based on light and involves several interwined characters searching for the 'truth' as to what happens when we die. Treachery, corruption and double-crosses are plentiful and as long as you're not expecting some over-complicated and/or well grounded scientific or social commentary, you won't be disappointed.
Excellent stuff.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The plot is thus: good scientists discover the location of the soul and evil scientists/religous fanatics abuse and manipulate the power with near-apocalyptic consequences.
This is yet another rip-roaring thriller from Britain's best technothriller writer of this time, Michael Cordy.
I've read some poor reviews of this novel, and they are wrong. The book doesn't set out be a literary masterpiece, so why do people think that it did? The characters are cliched, this is true, but so what? You like them and invest in them and that's all you need to do. This book is not for cynical literary types who care more about a novel's place in the socio-political framework, it's more a fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping powerhouse of a good old-fashioned big boys adventure wrapped up in an intriguing scientific-religious debate. Awesome stuff.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The main character certainly seems to be relative of Dirk Pitt, which means entertaining yet improbable. However, the subject matter is very interesting indeed. I found myself reading each page with facination. Hard to take seriously (especially the climax at the end) but I enjoyed it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Wow what a read
After read michael cordy's 2 previous works
The miracle strain and crime zero, lucifer has been on my bookshelf for a long time, so I am to late in reviewing this book but... Read more
The miracle strain and crime zero, lucifer has been on my bookshelf for a long time, so I am to late in reviewing this book but... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr C I Kingston
A guilty treat
I'm a few years late to this one, but I wanted to write a review because I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Lucifer won't move you to tears or anything as affecting as that, but... Read more
Lucifer won't move you to tears or anything as affecting as that, but... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by Susanna Lane
Lucifer
A good with a very thought-provoking idea behind it. A gripping read which has encouraged me to seek out and read some of Michael Cordy's other books. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2007 by S Richard
A good yarn
I have just finished reading the book, and this the first book I have read by Michael Cordy, but it will not be the last. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2006 by K. Todd
Nice Idea, Trashily Delivered
"Lucifer" (now re-released as 'The Lucifer Code' to lure DaVinci Code followers) is a story set in a near future with a scientific breakthrough that promises a glimpse into what... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2006 by Green Man Music
Very enjoyable read
This book has recently been repackaged as "THE LUCIFER CODE" in an attempt to jump on the whole "anything with code in sells itself bandwagon". Read more
Published on 13 April 2006 by Christopher Allen
Some science, lots of fiction
An English Michael Crichton eh? Lucifer was my first Cordy novel and I enjoyed it. There's clever use of emerging technology and how it will effect religion and medical... Read more
Published on 11 April 2006 by Mr. G. Battle
More action adventure than anything else
I found it a thoroughtly enjoyable holiday read - more like Cussler than Crichton. Our hero of the tale, Dr Miles Fleming is certainly a Dirk Pitt type.
Published on 10 Mar 2004
What if.....
computers as we now know them became obsolete, a new wave replaced them, so advanced, so powerful, that they could be used to identify one of the most burning questions of our... Read more
Published on 8 April 2003 by JJC
Junk without the fun
Cordy clearly tries to write to a formula, given the number of absolutely 'stock' elements in this severly over-egged pudding of the thriller. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2003
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