Review: Codex - Adrian Dawson

Today's book which was provided as a Review copy by Midas Public Relations, UK is an action- adventure novel, which is not really a topic I have ventured on much lately as at one stage in my life, this was all I read and over the past year and months - my reading style has tended to go in lots of directions and in areas that in the past I may never had the chance to delve into.

Review: Codex - Adrian Dawson - December 2010

Are you a fan of Dan Brown's famous book "The Da Vinci Code" ? Read the book and seen the film that followed ? How do you view the game of Chess, do you see it as a game for nerds and geeks to play or do you view the game as a fascinating research and game of strategy, all that intelligence going into trying to work out the next moves as with a game of chess - you always have to be at least two moves ahead in order to win the game. Some people call the game of Chess - the game of Life and with Adrian Dawson's book "Codex" it is just that as the main character's daughter Lara had a secret life , she was working as a part of a test group for a programme that had the Artificial Intelligence to crack even the world's most complex codal system known to man. On returning home, she boarded an aeroplane which was later bombed during what the airport and police routinely called a "terrorist attack". However, this was not a random terrorist attack as Lara's Dad Jack - a Chess Grandmaster is about to discover that each of the passengers on board were targeted for a particular reason. He will soon discover, that Lara also left behind a Son called Daniel. Soon in order to save the ones he loves from suffering the same murderous fate of his wife and now Lara, he must play a game of Chess -one that is truly a game of life and death.

Codex by Adrian Dawson is similar I found to Katherine Neville's series The Eight and The Fire , it also drew me whilst reading it to comparing novels by David Hewson , Dan Brown etc as each chapter has a relation to a Bible Verse. Though the book does not primarily focus on the religion side of things, you will note throughout reading that it subtly touches base on the religious factor that underlines each chapter.