A serial killer is on the run and the police department is trying to find them before they hit again. Except that this killer usually leaves no evidence whatsoever. Until during the last victim's vitropsy, when Chief Forensics Officer Elijah Boniface discovers traces of DNA that don’t belong to the dead woman. That usually leads to identifying the perpetrator because everyone is tagged in the system when they’re born. But not this person. The killer is not in the system, which is impossible.
Back to square one, Elijah suggests using new technology, something never tried before: creating a clone of the killer to see their face and identify them somehow. They call this the Janus Project.
This sci-fi thriller by Greg Krojac is another one of his fast-paced adventures. A page-turner I read over a weekend. Krojac’s prose is fluid as usual and up until the end, I’ve kept wondering what would happen to the clone after the capture of the killer. Since we follow the killer’s moves from the start, the story is not much about finding who they are (we already know) but about what happens to the clone next. I must admit that in the review copy I received, the ethical issue of creating a clone was addressed only slightly, and that’s what most bothered me about this book. As a Krojac fan, I still think it’s a great read.
The Janus Project is available here
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