Cast Of Shadows
- 作者:Guilfoile,Kevin
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2006-05-09
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:1400078261
- ISBN13:9781400078264
- 裝訂:平裝 / 13.3 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
一個冷血殺手,以「上帝之手」為名製造連環血案
一個DNA專家,愛女被殺後決定複製凶手,只為看清他的模樣
一個天真的孩子,漸漸變成行為怪異的天才少年……
為了看清無名凶手的長相,你敢不敢複製他的DNA?
當你複製出一個人的時候,你還複製出了什麼?
科技與驚悚的完美結合,媲美麥克.克萊頓的精彩力作
戴維斯.穆爾是一位從事複製人研究的醫生,這是一項頗具爭議且被嚴格控制的新型實驗技術,可以讓不孕及患有遺傳疾病的夫婦,也能擁有小孩。有一天,他十七歲的獨生女遭人強暴並被殘忍地殺害,警方卻始終破不了案。一年半之後,他取回女兒的遺物,在其中發現了一個裝有凶手DNA的小瓶子。在真相不明的痛苦折磨下,戴維斯產生了一個可怕的念頭︰複製。他想要複製殺害女兒的凶手,只為了看清他的模樣。
一個來自「上帝之手」組織的殺手,深信複製技術是種罪惡,決定獵殺那些從事複製研究的相關人員,戴維斯.穆爾就是他的目標之一……
賈斯汀.芬恩看起來和其他孩子一樣陽光、快樂,除了過份的聰明與早熟,在他父母和認識他的人眼中,賈斯汀只是一個天真爛漫的孩子。可是有一天,他的臉將會變成一個冷血凶手的複製品。當賈斯汀逐漸成為行為怪異的天才少年,戴維斯心中的不安也逐漸加深,此時市內爆發一連串女子命案,他終於發現,為了追求真相,他或許已經捲入了一場永遠無法獲勝的追捕遊戲……
邪惡的源頭在哪裡?我們死後,靈魂會怎麼樣?
複製技術是帶給人類美好的許諾,還是人類僭越了上帝的職責?
本書作者建構了一個科技進步的未來世界,以一件懸疑殘忍的謀殺案,翻攪起人心最深層的憤怒與報復,營造出精采又步步緊扣的劇情。在驚悚筆法的融合下,揭示了科學與道德、神學與倫理、天真與邪惡之間的矛盾糾葛。然而,最後的結局卻峰迴路轉,且耐人尋味……
★本書中譯本《複製邪惡》由漫遊者文化出版。
A bereaved doctor undertakes a diabolical experiment in a shattering philosophical thriller that anticipates the moral, social, and metaphysical dilemmas science is poised to confront. Davis Moore is a fertility doctor in Chicago specializing in reproductive cloning, a controversial and closely regulated new practice, when his seventeen-year-old daughter is brutally raped and murdered. The case is investigated but never solved. Months later, Moore retrieves her belongings from the police, and finds among them a vial containing the killer's DNA. Tormented by grief, Moore entertains a monstrous thought: the possibility of cloning not his daughter but the man who killed her. How far would you go to look into the face of your daughter's murderer?
Justin Finn, at three, looks like any other child. Bright, joyful, sweet; an innocent toddler to his unsuspecting parents and to all who know him. But his face, one day, will be the exact match of the cold-blooded killer of whom he is a perfect genetic replica. Can a three-year-old have a past? Where does evil come from?
What happens to the soul when we die? What are you duplicating when you duplicate a human life?
Cast of Shadows is a spectacularly original, hair-raising novel about the fate of a little boy brought into the world to solve a crime. Relentlessly gripping, profoundly unsettling, and visionary, it introduces a major new suspense novelist.
作者簡介
凱文‧吉佛伊
出生於美國新澤西州,畢業於著名的私立聖母大學,目前與妻子和小孩定居芝加哥。曾有多部短篇幽默小說散見報刊,並為《麥斯威尼》(McSweeney's)、《沙龍》(Salon)、《新共和》(The New Republic)、《紐約時報雜誌》(The New York Times Magazine)等撰稿。《複製邪惡》是他的代表作。
Kevin Guilfoile has written for McSweeney's, Salon, and The New Republic. He lives in Chicago with his wife and child.