Year Zero: a Novel

In Jeff Long's seventh work, the bestselling author creates a spine-tingling thriller that seems destined to become a classic with, 'Year Zero', in the mode of 'The Andromeda Strain' --- with a startling spiritual twist. Long's hero in this novel is, Nathan Swift, a young archaeologist doing field research in the holy land on a hunt for the historical Jesus Christ. Nathan is a principled man, who in a lapse of greed sells a major find he has unearthed on the black-market, a vial of blood from the 1st century. The vial unleashes a pandemic plague on the world that threatens to wipeout all of mankind. On his journey home to America, through an adventurous series of events, Nathan ends-up at Los Alamos in New Mexico, where he finds the greatest minds in science have met in search of a cure. In a last-ditch effort, racing against time, they use human lab-rats cloned from year zero. Nathan comes face to face with men made from the relics he had once looted, one of whom actually claims to be Jesus Christ! Could this be Patient Zero ... with the answer they seek?