THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME…
THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS…
WILL BE REVEALED.
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70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct.
We survived, but no one knows how.
Until now.
The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time.
… humanity might not survive this time.
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The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they’ve hidden the truth about human evolution. They’ve also searched for an ancient enemy — a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.
Off the coast of Antarctica, a research vessel discovers a mysterious structure buried deep in an iceberg. It has been there for thousands of years, and something is guarding it. As the Immari rush to execute their plan, a brilliant geneticist makes a discovery that could change everything.
Dr. Kate Warner moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. She hasn’t recovered from what happened to her, but she has made an incredible breakthrough: a cure for autism. Or so she thinks. What she has found is far more dangerous — for her and the entire human race. Her work could be the key to the next stage of human evolution. In the hands of the Immari, it would mean the end of humanity as we know it.
Agent David Vale has spent ten years trying to stop the Immari. Now he’s out of time. His informant is dead. His organization has been infiltrated. His enemy is hunting him. But when David receives a coded message related to the Immari attack, he risks everything to save the one person that can help him solve it: Dr. Kate Warner.
Together, Kate and David must race to unravel a global conspiracy and learn the truth about the Atlantis Gene… and human origins. Their journey takes them to the far corners of the globe and into the secrets of their pasts. The Immari are close on their heels and will stop at nothing to obtain Kate’s research and force the next stage of human evolution — even if it means killing 99.9% of the world’s population. David and Kate can stop them… if they can trust each other. And stay alive.
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Nothing could describe the storytelling skills of AG Riddle better than picking up book 1 of ‘The Origin Mystery’ series. It is one of the best tales I have read.
Although I did not plan on killing an entire day reading, I did. I just for the life of me could not jump out of this story and put on a pair of shoes. Consider 450 pages that I didn’t …
Great first book in the Origin Mystery Trilogy. Love his ideas.
Very thought provoking!
Great series. Can’t wait for more from Riddle
A very good understanding of how dictators think. A very scary world, it will be hard for the good guys to save the world.
The cover identifies the book as a million-copy bestseller, so many readers have loved the book. This retired biological scientist found the basic premise hard to swallow, even when reading for amusement.
The plot hinges on huge, mysterious, bell-like structures that guard two buried, ancient, spaceships. People exposed to the bells die, and …
Spanish Flu vs Covid
Not the best book to read during COVID. Conspiracy, sickness, bleeding, suffocation along with death, disaster and inhumanity. Humans, subspecies, Neanderthals and other forms of homo sapiens. Greed and mad science.
It started off as a fast paced action story, but tapered off quickly. The plot elements became way to cliche (nazis, love triangles, explosion countdown). The book comes across as an action movie script, reworked into a book. I’d personally like to watch that movie, but the book suffers for this decision.
It sounded like a great plot and the writing sucked me in on the first page… Unfortunately, the author used Jesus’ name in vain so therefore I was unable to finish the book.
Read at your own risk.
This book starts off with more promise than it delivers. Hidden societies, the remnants of Nazis, and the mythic Atlantis are the recurring themes, and they might have worked well, but as is the curse of way too many stories the strong beginning devolves into a middling end. Not that there is a real end, it’s more like the close of a chapter, with …
This review is for the unabridged Audible audio version.
I love sci-fi, and while The Atlantis Gene wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great either. It meandered too much and never got around to developing the characters well. The author did a lot of mansplaining of simple tech terms like domain names, which was just as unnecessary here as it was in …
A little X-Files and an easy read. I plan to finish the series.