Title: The Eighth Day - John Case - book
Summary :
The corpse of a man, walled up alive in the basement of his house. A laptop, containing mysterious files, sent to a Jesuit at the Vatican. A powerful Italian-Turkish businessman, Zerevan Zebek, who claims to be the target of a defamatory press campaign. A young detective, Danny, recruited at a high price to discover who is orchestrating this campaign, and to recover the computer and precious contents at all costs. These are the ingredients of an adventure that takes us from Washington to Rome, from Silicon Valley to the lost cities of Anatolia where a Kurdish sect devotes a strange cult to Satan. At stake is a biotechnological discovery likely to ravage the planet... After Genelis and Syndrome, John Case has signed his thriller, undoubtedly the most gripping... and the most demonic.