His full name according to the Parish records was Jason Jesus Rowlinson. Rowlinson was Don’s natural surname, the choice of the name Jason being an easy one, a tribute to the man who had given life to the boy, and to a friend they all loved and missed.
In their home they called their son Jesus, but to protect their son’s identity and give him as much chance to grow up as normally as possible without drawing any undue attention to himself, they had decided that officially, in public and outside their home they would call him Jason.
They had christened their son Jesus, naming him after the man that they believed they had cloned. However, since their son had been born, there had been nothing to suggest he was anything 'special'. No miracles, nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing...But nevertheless, at the time of the christening, they had believed he was special.
Lydia came back onto the porch with two little boys. She’d been playing in the long grass at the end of the garden with Achmed and Jesus.
“I can’t do this anymore! I'm exhausted!” Lydia exclaimed, waddling towards them, and sitting down slowly in her chair. She was six months pregnant, and was expecting in October, only three weeks after Maria, who was also pregnant and now expecting her second child.
It had taken Lydia a few years to get over the death of Jason, but then one day she'd met a handsome researcher at the Ashmolean Museum, an expert in Grecian artefacts and history, and they had fallen in love, drawn together by a common interest in the past.
Lydia eyed up a Cherry Tart on the tray and looked pleadingly at Don, who was laughing quietly at the hungry look on her face.
“Oh, okay. But you can hardly call it a diet, if you eat everything you look at, can you?” he laughed.
“Yes, but I did tell you that it was a Sea Food diet...” Lydia argued back. “ …as in ‘see food and eat it!’ ”
“The old ones are...the oldest...” Don quirked. Bad jokes were his job.
Lydia had been married for two years now. She had moved back to Oxford to be with her husband, and with a little help from the Professor, she had been given a fellowship in Oxford, allowing her to study and catalogue the Professor’s share of the Rahipti-Ani treasure as it came into the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, to whom the Professor had lent his share of the treasure on a semi-permanent loan. She had stayed friends with Haissem team, and was pleased to spend time with them, whenever the opportunity arose.
Little Jesus looked up and cried at Maria.
“Mummy, mummy, come play in the garden.”
“Okay. Okay...” Maria struggled to her feet, “…but just for a little while!”
“I’ll come with you,” Don volunteered, perhaps being a little overprotective toward his heavily pregnant wife.
As Don and Maria walked after them, Little Jesus and Achmed ran ahead to play again in the meadow at the end of the garden. Achmed was the surviving cloned child of Pharaoh Raphiti-Ani, and was staying with them for a few weeks during the summer, as he had done last year.
Normally resident in the busy streets of Cairo, his Egyptian stepparents had taken the opportunity to see the sights in London today, and would stay over in a hotel for the weekend. They loved Achmed dearly, but nowadays they hardly ever got the chance to spend any time alone. This weekend away was going to be their first weekend alone in a year, since the last time they had come to stay with Don.
Jesus and Achmed loved playing together. They had become firm friends within minutes of meeting each other two years before, and now, while Don and Maria kept a watchful eye on them, they chased butterflies together through the long, shoulder high grass. Their hands waved wildly in the air as their little legs stumbled unsteadily across the rough ground, their voices carrying easily back to the group enjoying tea and cakes in the garden behind, as they screamed and giggled loudly with the excitement of being young.
Suddenly little Jesus stumbled and went down heavily on both knees, disappearing from Maria and Don’s view as the long grass swallowed him up. Quickly Maria ran forward to him to make sure he was okay, and found him kneeling on the ground, crying. Achmed was standing quietly by his side, his little hand on Jesus’s shoulder. At first Maria thought that Jesus must have hurt himself as he fell, but as she bent down to help the little boy up, she noticed the dead, white bird in the grass in front of Jesus.
“Why doesn’t he fly away?” Jesus asked, quietly.
“He’s dead...” Maria answered, not knowing how to answer the question properly. How could a little child understand death. “…he can’t fly any more...”
A little tear ran down Jesus’s cheek and he started to cry quietly. The little boy reached forward and gently picked up the dead bird, drawing it to his chest and hugging it close.
As Don and Maria watched, a blue light started to come from the boy’s hands, engulfing the bird and bathing it in its glow.
After a few seconds the blue light disappeared and Jesus held out his hands, the bird lying flat in his palms. The bird’s wings twitched and its eyes opened. The tips of the wings began to unfurl, then with slow but deliberate contractions of its muscles, it stretched them out and flapped them slowly in the warm afternoon air.
The small bird’s head started to move, and it looked around nervously from left to right, as if trying to figure out where it was.
Little Jesus laughed and gently rose to his feet. He ran a few metres forward in the grass and lifted his hands upwards to the sky. The bird flapped its wings a few times and then took flight.
It flew away from them, rising into the blue sky above, a white dove of peace, climbing and climbing until it was far from sight.
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Readers should be warned that the novel contains strong language and scenes of sex and violence.
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When Peter Nicolson, a reporter with the Edinburgh Evening News, is almost killed by a gang leader out to make his mark, the only way to save his life is through a double kidney transplant. One of the first people in the world to be treated with the new genetic wonder drug 'SP-X4', Peter makes a remarkable recovery. Yet as he recovers, his personality begins to change, and he discovers that he can see visions of unsolved killings committed by a murderer that no one has ever caught. Peter sets out to solve the murders, to track down the killer, and find out the truth behind the visions that he sees.
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The Orlando File : A page-turning Mystery & Detective Medical Thriller
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When Kerrin Graham, a retired cop and now an investigative journalist with the Washington Post, receives a call in the middle of the night, his life is about to be turned upside down.
Six of the world's leading geneticists have all 'committed suicide' in the past seven days, his brother-in-law being the latest to die. Establishing that those who died were all employees of the Gen8tyx Company, a secretive research company based in Orlando, Kerrin sets out to discover the truth behind their deaths.
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On a trail that takes him around the world and back, Kerrin uncovers a sinister organisation that will stop at nothing to protect the secret behind the mysterious 'Orlando Treatment'.
When those around him start to die, and his wife disappears, it becomes a race against time to find the missing 'Orlando File', the only hope of saving his crippled wife and proving to an unsuspecting world, the truth behind the sinister Chymera Corporation of America.
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The Sleeping Truth : A Romantic Medical Thriller
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In an attempt to escape from his past and start a new life, Andrew Jardine moves to London in July 2005 and moves in with his best friend Guy.
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