For much of this book, I felt like a goose being fattened to make foie gras: force-fed grains of science, philosophy and religion in a style that took some getting used to.
The story, which revolves around a message encoded in our junk DNA, is told by Kate, a Ducati-riding programmer of ultra-violent video games. If that鈥檚 not enough of a turn-on for you, she fires guns with both hands.
The other leads include the obligatory lapsed Catholic, a geneticist and a cryptographer. It鈥檚 all a bit Da Vinci Code, but with DNA and fanatical members of various world religions, all armed to the teeth. Oddly, despite all this potential for excitement, it鈥檚 a remarkably tension-free read.
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For my money, why have Lara Croft feed you neuropsychology or evolutionary biology when you can read Stephen Pinker or Richard Dawkins?
Pandora鈥檚 Sisters
Macmillan
