Death by DNA
by Pierce Roberts
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Pub Date 1 Jan 2018 | Archive Date 21 Jun 2018
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Description
Tom O’Dell is rural Wisconsin dairy veterinarian who has his own practice. With the emergence of worldwide unexplained instantaneous mass animal deaths, Tom is drafted by the USDA to be a CDC trained investigator and help protect the agricultural economy from devastation. Trained at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, he becomes part of a worldwide team of scientists to find a cause of these deaths.
The team’s first cases involve the death of 220 cows and heifer calves in a herd of free range beef cattle grazing on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, where only the bulls and steers are untouched. There they meet an ancient Lakota Sioux shaman whose dreams and visions have predicted the arrival of a ‘Destroyer’, who will bring on worldwide Armageddon. The team is commissioned by the old man to find this destroyer of life and that leads them on a worldwide manhunt.
They team up with French investigators from the prestigious Pasteur Institute and an old Parisian Nazi hunter. The man depicted in the old Indian’s journals is discovered to be Wilheim Berhetzel, a Nazi war criminal, thought to be long-dead in a post-war plane crash into a Swiss mountainside. His death camp experiments to discover a fountain of youth drug and a lethal death ray weapon becomes his obsession, which he continues to perfect in the secluded rainforests of Argentina. He emerges on the world stage again during his assassination attempt on the President of France with his perfected weapon. The team’s pursuit leads them through Europe and back to South America where they barely escape Berhetzel’s attempt to kill them. The Nazi then disappears only to reappear in the United States with designs of overthrowing the government with mass extermination of the country's leaders at the presidential inauguration ceremony.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781787107540 |
| PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
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John P, Reviewer
"Death by DNA" eBook was published in 2016 and was written by Pierce Roberts. This is Mr. Robert's first publication.
I categorize this novel as ‘PG’ because it contains scenes of Violence, Mature Situations, and Mature Language. The story is set primarily in contemporary Europe and South America. The primary character is Tom O’Dell, a rural Wisconsin dairy veterinarian.
Something is causing animal specie deaths across the world in small localized areas. O'Dell is one of many vets across the country that are drafted by the USDA to investigate. They are sent to Atlanta for training and there he meets the lovely Dr. Kate Vensky of the USDA. Not long after the training, over 200 cows and heifer calves are found dead on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. While there investigating, O'Dell and his colleagues meet a Lakota Sioux shaman who has seen a vision of a 'Destroyer' coming.
As their investigation continues, they suspect that the cause of the animal deaths is the result of an invention originating in Nazi Germany. It becomes a race as to whether they will find who is behind the plot before the killing becomes widespread and targeted at humans. As they proceed, they find that their investigation and very lives are under threat from Nazi sympathizers.
I thought that the 11+ hours I spent reading this 433 page thriller were interesting. The story combined romance, religion and the paranormal as well as some science fiction. While I liked the overall plot, I think it could have been given more intensity. Likewise, I think the characters could have had more depth to them. I think better cover art could have been chosen. I give this novel a 3.5 (rounded up to a 4) out of 5.
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