John Case Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Genesis Code (1997)
  2. The First Horseman (1998)
  3. Trance State (2001)
  4. The Eighth Day (2002)
  5. The Murder Artist (2004)
  6. Dance of Death (2006)
  7. Cipher in the Blood (2010)

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John Case Books Overview

The Genesis Code

Joe Lassiter is an ex FBI investigator bent on revenge. His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right wing fundamentalist hit squad to rid the world of all evidence of it. The discovery originates from a confession in a remote village in Italy. A confession that sends the local priest into a panic and the Vatican into an uproar. The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic a fertility clinic that Lassiter’s sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world. Women who were infertile until they attended the clinic. Lassiter must discover the remaining mothers before the hit men, and meanwhile his sister’s killer is on the loose…

The First Horseman

In the Book of Revelations, the Four Horseme*n herald the arrival of the Apocalypse. When The First Horseman thunders forth, pestilence will spread throughout the land. For The First Horseman is Plague…
. With the highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Genesis Code, John Case gave us a compelling, chillingly plausible novel of suspense that readers devoured in one sitting. Now Case once again combines cutting edge science with political intrigue in a thriller even more terrifying a journey into a nightmare so frighteningly believable that it might just happen tomorrow. The Spanish Flu killed forty million people worldwide in 1918. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward a remote island in the Arctic Sea to recover strains of the lethal virus preserved under layers of ice. For Washington Post reporter Frank Daly, it is the story of a lifetime. But his plan to join the expedition is ruined by a ferocious storm that delays him. And when he meets up with the ship upon its return to port in Norway, it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong. Fear haunts the faces of the crew. No one will talk. And someone wants Daly to stop asking questions. But if there’s a wall around the facts, Daly will batter it down. Persistent and resourceful, he knows how to get answers when none are given. Yet the more he uncovers, the more dangerous the stakes become. Until at last he comes face to face with a shocking secret, pitching him into a harrowing race to prevent nothing less than…
apocalypse. Gripping, heartpounding, The First Horseman hurtles through jolting twists of plot to reveal an enemy as ominous as the darkest prophecy. A knockout thriller, here is a novel of unrelenting suspense you will find hard to put down and even harder to forget.

Trance State

‘ It is one of the few science mysteries I have read that is impeccable in plot, immaculate in story resolution, and moves with high skill from locale to locale and from suspense to suspense. What a very good, virtuoso read.’

Norman Mailer on The Genesis Code

A promising research fellow for a venerable think tank in Zurich is forced into a grisly experiment…
A seductive young woman coolly sharpshoots an old man in a wheelchair as he basks in the late afternoon sun…
A psychologist
who helps patients confront past trauma battles his own silent demons…
In THE SYNDROME, John Case combines these intriguing elements into a
pulse pounding, mind twisting new thriller.

Dr. Jeff Duran suffers from severe panic attacks when he ventures too far outside his home office. And he is inexplicably haunted by mysterious
memories, and phrases of a foreign language he never learned. Then, after a patient tormented by ‘recovered’ memories commits suicide and her
half sister, Adrienne Cope, blames Duran his life spirals out of control.

Suddenly targeted by unknown assassins, he and Adrienne must run for their very lives. Forced to trust each other, they must now work together to
unlock the reason why one or both of them is marked for death. For beneath the intrigue lies a dark conspiracy that stretches halfway around the
world and a sinister plot that could change the course of history.

A relentlessly paced thriller in which nothing is what it seems, no one can be trusted, and nothing is secure especially one’s own memories THE SYNDROME is a chillingly, brilliantly conceived novel from a proven master of suspense. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content What if you weren’t who you thought you were, and behind the screen of false memories that convinced you of your identity was another, even more terrifying set of equally false memories, so awful that if anyone or anything made it past the first, artificially induced ‘firewall,’ you’d kill yourself rather than live with the horror of what you thought you’d done? That’s the intriguing, if somewhat muddled, setup for John Case’s The Genesis Code new thriller, which starts with the disappearance of Lew McBride, a young research psychologist, and the suicide of a beautiful but troubled young woman soon after she inexplicably guns down an old man in a wheelchair.

Adrienne Cope blames her sister Nico’s death on Jeff Duran, the psychologist who’s been treating Nico for the after effects of the satanic sexual abuse she supposedly suffered in childhood, abuse that Adrienne has reason to know is a complete fiction. When the detective Adrienne hires to investigate Duran turns up proof that he’s an impostor, Duran himself is baffled; his belief in his own identity is so convincing that he pas*ses a lie detector test without breaking a sweat. Someone has stolen his mind: is it the same shadowy cabal that stole Nico’s, too? When he and Adrienne finally join forces, their first stop is a neurologist, whose tests reveal an anomaly in Duran’s brain, an implant that leads them to a Swiss clinic where a ruthless scientist has taken up experiments in brainwashing and mind control that the CIA shut down decades ago. Or did it? Case mixes neuroscience and geopolitics in a Manchurian Candidate like scenario that’s scary enough to make you wonder whether you ought to trust your own memory, let alone anyone else’s. Both Adrienne and Jeff are likable innocents, caught up in a terrifying web spun by a faceless man with a Messiah complex. His plan to destroy anyone who gets in his way is exciting enough to keep the narrative from bogging down in all the technical details Case uses to buttress his suitably scary plot. Jane Adams

The Eighth Day

‘And on the Seventh Day, He rested.’
Genesis, 2: 2 3

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Syndrome, here is a spellbinding new thriller of international intrigue, religious prophecy, cutting edge science, and unrelenting suspense.

For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic lawyer, Jude Belzer, would like to retain Danny for a little damage control. His client, an elusive billionaire named Zerevan Zebet, is the target of a vicious campaign in the Italian press that threatens to destroy his reputation. Belzer wants Danny to find out who is responsible and he will pay handsomely.

Danny’s only lead is the meager estate of a recently deceased professor of religious studies, a man so deeply terrified that he buried himself alive in the baseme*nt of an isolated farmhouse. Belzer swears that if Danny can get at the late professor s files, the conspiracy against his own reclusive client will unravel. It s the perfect assignment, in a way, and Danny can sure use the money. But the more he probes, the more apparent it becomes that nothing is what it seems. There is something he isn t being told. Something that s not quite right. Something dark, fast, and sinister that s coming at him from behind.

From the powerful world of Washington, D.C., to the ancient grandeur of Rome, from the mysteries of Istanbul to the high stakes drama of Silicon Valley, The Eighth Day is a briskly paced, globe trotting thriller of electrifying suspense. Packed with unexpected reversals and astonishing twists of plot, this is John Case s most gripping novel to date.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Murder Artist

The bestselling author of The Genesis Code and The Eighth Day now strikes his most harrowing chord, with a chilling novel that pushes suspense to nearly inhuman limits. As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He’s seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he s never known is the terror that grabs him when, on a tranquil summer afternoon, he ceases to be an observer of the dark side and, to his shock, becomes enmeshed in it. Separated from his wife, and struggling not to become a stranger to his six year old twin sons, Alex is logging some all too rare quality time with the boys, when they vanish without a trace amid the hurly burly of a countryside Renaissance Fair. Then the phone call comes. A chilling silence; slow, steady breathing; and the familiar, plaintive voice of a child Daddy? complete the nightmare…
and set in motion a juggernaut of frenzy and agony. The longer the police search, exhausting leads without success, the deeper Alex s certainty grows that time is running out. And when, at last, telltale signs reveal a hidden pattern of bizarre and ghoulish abductions, Alex vows to use his own relentless investigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed The Piper. Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges from previous crimes involving twins, from the zealously secret world of professional magicians, and from the eerie culture of voodoo suggests that The Piper is a predator unlike any other. A twisted soul hell bent on fulfilling an unspeakably dark dream. A fiend with a terrifying true calling. What Alex Callahan is closing in on is a monster with a mission. From the Hardcover edition.

Dance of Death

From The Genesis Code to The Murder Artist, John Case has established himself as the master of unrelenting suspense. Now Case choreographs his most diabolically chilling novel to date, as the very fabric of civilization threatens to come apart in the hands of a brilliantly vengeful madman.

Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth and came back with the pictures and battle scars to prove it. He was flying high until, quite suddenly, he wasn t. When Burke’s helicopter crashed and burned in Africa, he came away with his life but lost his heart to the beautiful woman who saved him. That s when he decided it was time to stop dancing with the devil. But a wicked twist of fate puts an end to Burke s dreams, leaving him adrift in Dublin with bittersweet memories…
and no appetite for danger. But the devil isn t done with him yet.

An ocean away, Jack Wilson leaves prison burning for revenge. Like Burke, Wilson has had something taken from him. And he, too, dreams of starting over. Only Wilson s dream is the rest of the world s nightmare. Driven by his obsession with a Native American visionary, and guided by the secret notebooks of Nikola Tesla, the man who is said to have invented the twentieth century, Wilson dreams of the Apocalypse and plans to make it happen.

As a terrifying worldwide chain reaction is set in motion, Burke alone grasps the impending horror of Wilson s malevolent plan. With nothing left to lose, Burke pursues an American terrorist a twisted genius who journeys from a lawless weapons arsenal in the Transdneister to the diamond fields of the Congo…
to an isolated Nevada ranch. It is here, in a climactic showdown, that a determined Mike Burke faces a nemesis who knows no fear.

John Case is the bestselling author of The Genesis Code, The First Horseman, The Syndrome, The Eighth Day, and The Murder Artist.

From the Hardcover edition.

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