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Sales Rank: 1970514
Category: Book
Author: L. Christian Balling
Publisher: Forge Books
Studio: Forge Books
Manufacturer: Forge Books
Label: Forge Books
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0765352060
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765352064
ASIN: 0765352060
Publication Date: January 10, 2005
Release Date: December 28, 2004
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Product Description
But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. Luke 11:20
When an archaeological dig in Jerusalem unearths an ancient scroll written by Saint Stephen along with a piece of mummified flesh, no one really understands the importance of the discovery.
Then Allison Reese, a scientist working on the discovery, is beaten into a coma in a Harvard laboratory and the relic is stolen. Her father, John Reese, vows to uncover the truth behind his daughter's attack. But the truth is layered in shrouds of secrecy that go as far as the Opus Dei, and he is not the only one hunting for answers. His search takes him to a remote island off the coast of Maine and the compound of a maniacal evangelist whose revelation based on the relic is bound to shock the entire world!
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 TAKE THE TIME TO READ IT!!!!! July 25, 2007
To be honest, I thought that there would be better reviews for this book. I was shocked to see that it was getting bashed. I loved the book! I read it in one night because I couldn't set it down and the characters were very believable. Mr. Balling did tremendous research and it shows on every page. I feel that this book is a mix of Robin Cook and James Rollins. If you like either of these authors, then you will like this book.
 A "Putter Downer" July 31, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a book that I really wanted to like, but after 50 pages found myself unmotivated to pick up. It kept sitting on my end table crying out, "don't you have something better to do?" I know this sounds silly, but it is really a quite accurate representation of how you will feel reading the book.
The characters are hyperbolic and stereotypical, and generally unbelievable. The story is trite and predictable. The one good point about this book is that Christian Balling writes in a style that is easy to read. If Mr. Balling can provide his audience with more intriguing characters and plot, I think he will sell some books. Because of this, I gave the book 2 stars for writing style.
I tend to be a reader that gives a book 50 pages before moving on. There are so many good books in the market to read that I am not anxious to spend more than 50 pages on an unforgettable novel. This was such a novel. I moved on to something else, and you will too.
Not worth the money February 20, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was really disappointed with this book. The cover says "If you loved THE DA VINCI CODE, you'll flip over REVELATION.
This book is nothing like the CODE. There is no mystery involved even though the author tries to make you believe it.
I liked the characters in the novel. It's too bad the author didn't give them something more mysterious and interesting to do. Please don't buy this book if your looking for another page-turner like the CODE. This book is sorely lacking in great action and mystery that made the CODE so much fun.
 This book got too much M.S.G. and funny ingredients! June 1, 1998
I kept wondering during reading this novel, did the author really know something about Yakusa? What kind of outlandish scenario and plot here in this novel? If Reese, the hero armed with two master degrees; one of them, computer science, then why his only entertainment and recreation is to play chess with a colleague BY MAIL instead of playing it on-line? Baxter Acedemy is a college for rich students or a military camp, or a concentration camp? Yakusa? How much Balling really knows about Yakusa, the No.1 Japanese crime organization? Before putting one of the funny ingredients into his creation, did the author really perform certain in-depth research in this territory, or just got his information off the big screen or his 27" tube? The conspiracy designed by Balling is just as ridiculous as what DeMille created in his last "Plum Island", except Balling didn't have time to create a wise-craching guy, since he surely was busy in putting lot of MSG and funny stuff in his cooking pot to lure those blindly hungry movie script scavengers from Hollywood to have a big bowl full of everything and anything you could find in the screenplay market. This book would become more readable if the plot and scenario could come more naturally with less MSG or absolutely none of it.
An intellegent, cinematic read April 18, 1998
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Contrary to the Book Review summation, I found this novel to be exceptionally well-written and entertaining, not to mention well-researched. Clearly the author has taken great pains to weave his tale in the most credible way possible. If one is to make any entertainment industry analogy at all, I could easily see this being made into a great feature film, not a TV movie. And, apparently I am not alone in thinking this, as the book jacket mentions that REVELATION has been optioned by Cannel Productions.
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