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Novel Synopsis
What if you knew about a lab that conducted human experiments, but when you attempted to alert the authorities, you were condemned to a mental institution? Told from two vantage points, the novel The Davidian Odyssey opens in a Northern Virginia lab and ends in a Northern Virginia mental institution. David Steadman, whose wife and son were involved in cloning experiments, is charged with their abduction and murder, following their inexplicable disappearance. After he is found wandering the streets of Washington muttering about an angelic visitation, he is incarcerated in a state mental facility. He spends a great deal of his remaining days in a narcotic sleep that incites the flow of a “Memory River”, on whose banks he sits while sedated. Here, he sees illuminating visions of his childhood; his mother’s life; and those of a restless spirit named Charlotte, who died at Auschwitz and who is, we learn, his grandmother. The book explores genetic research conspiracies, the concepts of conflicted love and retribution, congenital psychosis, and the paranormal.
