Sixteen-year-old Jeff Jacobson had never heard of Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer who brutally murdered seventeen people more than twenty years ago. But Jeff’s life changes forever when the man he’d thought was his father hands him a government file telling him he was constructed in a laboratory only seven years ago, part of a top-secret government cloning experiment called ‘Project CAIN’.There, he was created entirely from Jeffrey Dahmer’s DNA. There are others like Jeff—those genetically engineered directly from the most notorious murderers of all time: The Son of Sam, The Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy . . . even other Jeffrey Dahmer clones. Some raised, like Jeff, in caring family environments; others within homes that mimicked the horrific early lives of the men they were created from.When the most dangerous boys are set free by the geneticist who created them, the summer of killing begins. Worse, these same teens now hold a secret weapon even more dangerous than the terrible evil they carry within. Only Jeff can help track the clones down before it’s too late. But will he catch the ‘monsters’ before becoming one himself?
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Jeff Jacobson's life is about to be turned upside down. He goes from being a somewhat normal teenager with a stable home life to fatherless and on the run from the men in the suits that want to kill him in a matter of hours. His father shares a secret with him. He is in fact only 8 years old and the clone of the noted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. His father, who is not actually his father, works for an organization known as DSTI. They have been manipulating the DNA of noted serial killers and creating clones, this project is known as 'Project Cain'.
Jeff's father leaves him with this knowledge, a wad of cash and a folder on Jeffrey Dahmer, his creator. Throughout the book Jeff struggles with his identity. Is he truly just a clone of one of the most evil men to ever walk the planet? Or is he the master of his own destiny. Can he control the visions and urges he has rooted within him? Or will he become something dark and dangerous just like his "father", Jeffrey Dahmer.
While a lot of the clones were killed at the same time Jeff learned the truth, several of them have escaped and are now on a killing spree. Jeff ends up with Castillo, a shady character that seems to know a lot about Jeff, DSTI and Project Cain. As the story progresses and these two unlikely partners try to stop the other clones from starting a mass genocide on the general populous, Jeff learns he shares a connection with the others. This connection could help them stop the clones and the killing, but it could also turn Jeff into the one thing he doesn't want to become, the clone of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Project Cain was very dark and sadistic, but it was also extremely engrossing. The reality of the subject matter and me being able to believe that our government could (and may well have already) done what they did in this book with 'Project Cain' left me in a cold sweat. Told completely from young Jeff's POV the reader is trapped in his mind while he struggles with the person he wants to be, and the reality of the evil that is engrained in his DNA.
The formatting of the wording throughout the book threw me off a little, and the EMPHASIS on capitalizing words was a little too much. There came a point as well in the story where it was two steps forward, and three steps back one time too many. That being said, overall I really liked this book. It's a nail biting, dark and violent story that will have you wondering which side Jeff will end up on in the end.
Geoffrey Girard is an award-winning fiction author whose works have appeared in several best-selling anthologies and magazines, including Writers of the Future (a 2003 winner), Murky Depths, Apex Horror & Science Fiction Digest, and the Stoker-nominated Dark Faith anthology. His first book, Tales of the Jersey Devil, thirteen original tales based on American folklore, was published in 2005, followed by Tales of the Atlantic Pirates (2006) and Tales of the Eastern Indians (2007). Simon and Schuster will publish two Girard novels in 2013: CAIN’S BLOOD, a techno thriller, and PROJECT CAIN, a spinoff novel for teen/YA readers.
Born in Germany, shaped in New Jersey and currently living in Ohio. Geoffrey graduated from Washington College with a literature degree and worked as an advertising copywriter and marketing manager, later shifting to high school English teacher. He is currently the English Dept. Chair at a private boys school in Ohio and is an MA candidate in Creative Writing at Miami University.
He has presented seminars and workshops on creative writing at colleges, elementary schools, bookstores and writers’ organizations and can also be spotted speaking at various conventions/events.
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