The Judas Gene couldn't possibly be any more timely. Having greatly enjoyed his previous two novels I had high hopes for this new one from Bruce Harris and it is an absolute tour de force. The author poignantly captures political intrigue and its demands for maneuvering unwanted facts; the powerful and chilling effects of a family business grown beyond its natural boundaries and deadlocked in bitter dispute; and how hope and a new beginning can be found but not always without repercussions from the past. There's even a very moving love story wrapped up in a mystery.
Max Bellamy is the perfect character to investigate a possible suicide or murder in a country house; and the Manninghams, with all their family jealousies and differences of opinion, are the perfect suspects.
Emotionally authentic and genuinely intriguing.