Divine Blood » (Unabridged, 7 Cassettes)

Martinez Hewlett is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Arizona. Divine Blood is his first novel.

From the edge of science, an unholy agenda. . . .

It is an astonishing discovery: a bloodstained burial shroud, entombed in the crumbling walls of a 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 the 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. . . .