Gene (novel)

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Gene

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Author	Stel Pavlou
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	2005

Gene is a 2005 thriller novel by Stel Pavlou, published by Simon & Schuster.^[1] It is published in several languages with some title changes. The Italian edition has the title La Cospirazione del Minotauro (The Minotaur Conspiracy). The novel is about a fictional New York detective, James North, who in the process of hunting down a criminal, uncovers a genetics experiment to unlock past lives through genetic memory, therefore achieving a kind of immortality. In so doing North discovers his own origins, that of a soldier from the Trojan War who is reincarnated seven times through history, forced to confront his nemesis each time, all for the loss of his one true love.