The Jesus Thief

The Jesus Thief
J R Lankford (Auteur)

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In The Jesus Thief, her national debut, Lankford bypasses apocalyptic themes for mainstream storytelling of an attempt to clone Jesus using DNA stolen from the Shroud of Turin. At the center is Dr. Felix Rossi, Harvard MD-PhD in obstetrics and microbiology, devout only-son of a Catholic family—or so he’s always believed. Rossi has also been a passionate aficionado of the Shroud since he was a child. He is convinced that the face on the ancient linen is that of Jesus Christ and that the linen’s Type AB blood contains the DNA of God. The novel opens as his dream of conducting research on the Shroud comes true. Yet Dr. Rossi is in turmoil, having just learned the hidden truth of his family’s Jewish heritage. Instead of studying the Shroud, Felix finds himself staring at "the largest bloodstain, the one that flowed when the Roman soldier used his lance to pierce the side." Moments later he steals two threads from Christendom’s treasure. The Jesus Thief is a story of lost family ties and a lost identity, of a devout man’s search for God, a powerful man’s fear of a Jesus clone, and a poor woman’s yearning to be special.