Download or read book Christ Clone written by David McLeod and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping thriller, the challenge goes out: clone Jesus Christ. Can science make a leap of faith? A wealthy businessman, issues a global challenge to all biotechnology corporations: clone Jesus Christ. As precious artefacts - the spearhead reputed to have been used to stab Jesus on the cross, a piece of the cross itself, and the Shroud of Turin - go missing from churches and private collections around the world, three scientific groups start their top-secret experiments. Across town, Michael Malone is a broken man. Once a respected priest, husband and father to a beautiful daughter named Mary, he now spends most of his time in a bar, drinking to drown the memory of the past. The unfortunate chain of events he is so desperate to forget began years before with the abduction of his daughter, and resulted in the loss of his wife - and his faith. From behind the bar, a TV news item brings his terrible memories flooding back. Malone embarks on a renewed quest to find his daughter, unaware of the extraordinary things that lie ahead.