A review by mpetruce
Blasphemy by Douglas Preston

3.0

Douglas Preston has been talked about as the heir to the late Michael Crichton in the thriller genre, and the talk could be right. While not quite as tightly packed as Crichton's best books, Preston nonetheless writes great page turners with all kinds of science, history, sociology, you name it, thrown in for highly entertaining reads. This is the second book to feature former CIA operative/monk now private investigator Wyman Ford (the first being Tyrannosaur Canyon). And while he goes into Ford's story a bit, it just feels like he's there simply so the reader can see what is going on; Ford himself doesn't seem to do anything that changes or moves the story all that much. This isn't necessarily bad, as the other characters are fun to watch. I suppose some Christian folks might be offended by parts of the book, but the "villains" who happen to be Christians in this book are done so over-the-top that any reasonable person, Christian or not, shouldn't be all that upset (and the folks who are really like the characters in this book aren't going to be reading this book at all anyway). But if it makes you feel any better, the non-Christians have plenty of wackiness written into them, too.