Geoffrey Girard

Cain's Blood Geoffrey Girard

Publisher Marketing: When clones of infamous serial killers escape from a secret government facility, it s up to a former Army Ranger to stop them with the help of a teenage killer clone. The DNA of the world s most notorious serial killers including Ted Bundy, The Son of Sam, and The Boston Strangler has been cloned by the US Department of Defense to develop a new breed of bioweapon. Now in Phase Three, the program includes dozens of young men who have no clue as to their evil heritage. Playing a twisted game of nature vs. nurture, scientists raise some of the clones with loving families and others in abusive circumstances. But everything changes when the most dangerous boys are set free by their creator. A man with demons of his own, former black ops soldier Shawn Castillo is hot on the clones trail. But Castillo didn t count on the quiet young man he finds hiding in an abandoned house a boy who has just learned he is the clone of Jeffrey Dahmer. As Jeffrey and Castillo race across the country after the rampaging teens, Castillo must protect the boy who is the embodiment of his biggest fears and who may also be his last hope. A wild, peek-through-your fingers scare ride (Paul Tremblay, author of "The Little Sleep"), "Cain s Blood" melds all-too-plausible science and ripped-from-the-headlines horror into a stunning work about the potential for good and evil in us all." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/29/2013 (EAN 9781476704043, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2013 pg. 50 (EAN 9781476704043, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2013 (EAN 9781476704043, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/15/2013 pg. 63 (EAN 9781476704043, Hardcover) Shelf Awareness 09/10/2013 (EAN 9781476704043, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2014 pg. 110 (EAN 9781476704043, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Girard, Geoffrey Born in Germany, raised in New Jersey, and currently living in Ohio, Geoffrey Girard graduated from Washington College with a literature degree and worked as an advertising copywriter and marketing manager before becoming a high school English teacher. He is currently the English department chair at a private boy s school in Ohio and is a Masters candidate in creative writing at Miami University of Ohio. Visit him online at GeoffreyGirard.com.