Review: Not as thrilling as it might have been in 1980
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2014
The Judas Gene is the story of a deadly virus that an evil Nazi doctor implanted in some prisoners in a Nazi death camp and 35 years later suddenly Jews are dropping dead all over the world. The characters in this book must find a solution immediately to prevent the "final solution" from being successful. The book is well written and the only flaw for me was that the end wrapped up too quickly to be believable.Also troubling for me was that I kept comparing the plot to the story of AIDS and the search for a solution that has taken much longer to try to solve and has been unsuccessful. In 1980 the world hadn't yet been scarred by the HIV virus. It was there but we were just becoming aware of how deadly it was.  It took many years for the HIV virus to be found and even now there is no cure. I'm sure when the book was written the authors had no idea that there was already a real life story happening that was similar to their plot. AIDS wasn't implanted in people on purpose to cause a certain group to die but a virus that lives in the body for many years before causing death is certainly a reality now.I think a thriller is exciting because we know it won't really happen. It is like riding a roller coaster just to be scared out of our mind but knowing that we are really not in any true danger. So for me this book was too close to reality to be thrilling--it just made me sad.