Review: Ancient lore and science
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
The Ancient DNA by John Lambrakis is a 327 page fiction story. It has thirty-two chapters (no titles just numbers) and is written in third person. Lambrakis graduated from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Biology, and is married to an archaeologist. His background makes him the perfect guy to use science and the history of Athens for the backdrop of this book. Unfortunately, this story falls into the lost in translation category, at least for me. There is a great story there. Just for an American reader it would need a little work.Pericles is a recent graduate with a Masters in Genetics from England and Bachelors from the University of Athens, Physics and Biology Department. He has a boring life and dreams of adventure. When he stumbles across an ancient document his life is turned upside down. When he examines it, using his advanced science methods, it sends him off on the journey of a lifetime. I absolutely love the plot.