The Obsidian Genome: A Modern Historical & Scientific Thriller

In the mud beneath the Thames at two in the morning, Dr. Anthony William-the British Museum's youngest and most insufferable lead archaeogeneticist-pulls an ossuary from a forgotten Roman temple and shatters the fundamental premise of human evolutionary history. The bones inside are two thousand years old. The DNA is not. Synthetic, triple-stranded, and carrying encrypted instructions no civilisation of the ancient world possessed the mathematics to write, the genome has been waiting with the precision of a locked safe for exactly the right chromosomal key to open it. Anthony is twenty-six, running on espresso and institutional guilt, and completely unprepared for the discovery that the secret society now burning down his life has been hunting his bloodline since the second century-or that the rare genetic disorder that killed his younger sister was not a disorder at all. It was an activation sequence. And the ossuary's payload has already found its way into his blood.

Pages: 278, Paperback, Independently published