The Judas Gene

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>The Judas Gene is a story about five people from four widely separated parts of the world who understand that their physical being is the result of eons of merged genes but most heavily influenced by their parents and grandparents. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>All Dr. Richard Rip Peters wanted was to explore a cave located high in a mountain in Argentina but his timely medical assistance to an injured priest placed him on a path that challenged his physical skills and his sanity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>All Keri Sadju wanted to do after his father's death by a bomb blast was to continue their secret organization's terrorist activities against the Jews but a discovery among his father's papers clouded this goal and altered his life journey for all time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>All Dr. Elizabeth Sadju wanted was to obtain surgical expertise to take back to her native country by working with a prominent U.S. surgeon but her brother's actions placed her in a life threatening situation.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>All Fr. Ortega wanted to do was be a good parish priest but his father's death bed confession forced him to take steps that he could never have imagined as a Catholic priest.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>All Claire Thaddaeus wanted to do was help her father research ancient documents at the IB Ltd. laboratory in England but a revelation of his ancestry and the secret organization he worked for presented a life that could prove unreconcilable.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA><SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>     </SPAN>If you were to ask them they would say that the circumstances that brought them into contact and the ensuing devastating events could only be explained by the existence of a Judas Gene. </SPAN>