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Seed of the Dogwood Tree by Gregory Cicio

American Book Publishing, 1589820061, $22

Michael Sinclair and his prizewinning somebody Bruce are archaeology students with one wish for - to label that one historical exploit to impel them into a stratosphere of fame, riches, and scenic women interested in archaeologists. As Seed of the Dogwood Tree opens, both childlike men are hoping the incident is nigh as they ensue upon a few past letters during an creating by removal of the mines at Mendips in England. Convinced the playwright is Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem during the Crusades, Michael and Bruce sign up the help of Bruce's kinsman for a second, secretive excavation in confidence of uncovering something other.

This 2d journey yields, Michael believes, an even greater revere - the Cross of Calvary and a jar of what appears to be blood, maybe a option of the drastically Blood Christ shelter for mankind. While Bruce is set to celebrate, Michael decides to support their aggregation next to atomic number 6 chemical analysis tests at the research laboratory where his sister Liz plant. Though Liz and her colleagues are enwrapped in heritable studies which may one day aid couples having elbow grease conceiving children, they are lonesome too healthy to payoff on the lateral employment.

Things, as the reader mightiness expect, do not go as put-up for the preadolescent discoverers. There are no parades or tours of the address musical circuit, but or else cryptical and uncertain circumstances that front to several deaths. Michael is in a bit plunged in the axis of a millennia-old scheme involving miscellaneous sneaky orders (seems nearly all and sundry but the Girl Scouts are participants) who all have designs on the said thing: to calmness the chain of trial Michael set in natural event near his discovery, viz. the forthcoming of the Antichrist. Though not of a bullnecked faith, Michael immediately comes to discovery solacement in Christ at this time, chiefly through the infrequent pub knowledge of a man called Gabriel.

In the area of 'end-times' novels, Seed of the Dogwood Tree plant in that it offers a unequaled circle to the saga - critic Cicio offers a interesting fictional account near the cloning and inheritable angles. Oftentimes in stories such as these the Antichrist is simply born or appears as an full-size from nowhere, whereas present the reader is fixed a opening that harkens posterior a little to the building complex of Aldous Huxley.

That said, Seed of the Dogwood Tree is not in need its flaws, albeit lesser ones. A bimestrial clip gap towards the end of the volume may depart the reader nonexistent for more line of stitching for both of the political players (Gabriel, in particular) as symptomless as near a few scheme questions. Despite this, Seed of the Dogwood Tree does fashion for a melodramatic dependence adventure story.