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Cast of Shadows Hardcover – March 1, 2005

by Kevin Guilfoile (Author)
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
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A bereaved doctor undertakes a diabolical experiment in a shattering philosophical thriller that anticipates the moral, social, and metaphysical dilemmas science is poised to confront.Davis Moore is a fertility doctor in Chicago specializing in reproductive cloning, a controversial and closely regulated new practice, when his seventeen-year-old daughter is brutally raped and murdered. The case is investigated but never solved. Months later, Moore retrieves her belongings from the police, and finds among them a vial containing the killer’s DNA. Tormented by grief, Moore entertains a monstrous thought: the possibility of cloning not his daughter but the man who killed her. How far would you go to look into the face of your daughter’s murderer?

Justin Finn, at three, looks like any other child. Bright, joyful, sweet; an innocent toddler to his unsuspecting parents and to all who know him. But his face, one day, will be the exact match of the cold-blooded killer of whom he is a perfect genetic replica. Can a three-year-old have a past? Where does evil come from?

What happens to the soul when we die? What are you duplicating when you duplicate a human life?

Cast of Shadows is a spectacularly original, hair-raising novel about the fate of a little boy brought into the world to solve a crime. Relentlessly gripping, profoundly unsettling, and visionary, it introduces a major new suspense novelist.
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  1. Print length
    336 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Knopf
  4. Publication date
    March 1, 2005
  5. Dimensions
    7 x 1.25 x 9.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1400043085
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1400043088
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3.8 out of 5 stars
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Bucherwurm
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Near Future Novel
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2005
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The only thing disappointing about this book is that it is Guilfoile's first novel, and I can't rush out and buy any previous novels that he has written.

The tale occurs in the near future when human cloning has become legal, and the protagonist is Dr. Moore, a fertility doctor, whose daughter has been raped and murdered. While grieving over the loss he inadvertently comes across a semen sample of the murderer, and impulsively clones a baby from this sample. He wants to follow the child's development so that he can see what his daughter's murderer looks like.

Some reviewers have deemed the plot of this book to be preposterous, but seem to not realize that the book takes place some years from now, and continues for another 17 years, and thus essentially qualifies as science fiction. Essential to the plot is a highly sophisticated virtual reality computer program, which seems to be quite possible given the novel's time frame. After all, I purchased my first computer game in 1984 for my IBM XT, and it was all text, no graphics. Today's games would seem impossible back in those days.

When Dr. Moore clones the child named Jason, he has no idea how his life and those around him will be changed. Startling new developments and plot twists kept me glued to the book. It's an exciting thriller with a truly unexpected ending. I have no interest in stories that pass over the edge of credibility, and believe me this book doesn't do that at all. Very highly recommended.
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William F Aicher
4.0 out of 5 stars A Gripping Philosophical Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2008
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Even though I'm a little late to the party (this book came out a few years ago), I'm very happy I found the time to read the debut from Kevin Guilfoile. With the combination of future technologies in what is a very believable future a few years from now, Cast of Shadows delves into ideas of what makes a person a person, nature vs. nurture, ethics of cloning, the dangers of religious extremism, and a future network game similar to today's game, Second Life. All of these different stories meld together extraordinarily well, and the book takes the reader on a very engaging long-term journey. A solid debut - I'll be looking forward to more from Mr. Guilfoile.
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The Chevalier
3.0 out of 5 stars Mystery or Morality Judgment?
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2005
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Mystery or Morality Judgment?

I have to say that I liked this book, almost. It had mystery, science fact and fiction intertwined with believable and likable characters. I am not going to sum up the story line as many reviewers before me have done an excellent job. My biggest complaint was the final realization that the author was painting religious people as right winged zealots that commit murder in the name of God. The rest of us, are no more than sum of our biological parts treading a preordained path without the possibility of change. All in all a pretty dismal summation of the human condition. The author shows promise, a little humanity might be helpful, Justin deserved more!
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Edward S Worst
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting story. It kept me guessing - my ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015
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An interesting story. It kept me guessing - my kind of book.
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S. D. Beallis
4.0 out of 5 stars Health care tech gone awry...
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2009
I bought this book when it first came out based on reviews in the Chicago Tribune, which praised it quite highly. The author was based in Chicago, and I'm always happy to see local folks make good. I brought it home...

And then it sat on the shelf. I don't know, for some reason this premise didn't call out to me, wanting me to pick it up from the myriad of other unread books on my shelf. But finally, a couple of weeks ago, I grabbed it and started it.

I'm glad I did. This was a tense, well-told story, very broad in scope and time horizon, but very interesting for how it dealt with some important issues. I thought it dovetailed nicely into all the serious discussion and disinformation about health care reform going on right now.

If you don't know by now, this book is about a fertility doctor specializing in cloning humans for couples that can't have children. Dr. Davis Moore's daughter is found raped and murdered, and the investigation goes nowhere. When Moore asks for and receives his daughter's personal effects back from the police, he discovers that a vial of semen is hidden among the items. It's a careless mistake, but one that reflects badly on the botched (in Dr. Moore's estimation) investigation into her murder. Not really thinking straight, he swaps the DNA from the killer for the DNA of his latest cloning/in-vitro procedure, with the idea that he will be able to see the face of his daughter's killer.

From here, the book jumps forward in time, so Dr. Moore (and the reader) can watch this young boy grow up. This could have felt disjointed, but it didn't, because the ideas that tie these segments together are pretty well developed. And the story gets broader, as Moore's own investigation causes suspicion from his wife, who hires her own detectives to track her husband, with dire consequences.

This whole story could have devolved into something very cliche. In some ways, it does, but the telling of the story and the way the ideas are presented worked very well for me. The ending is twisty enough to where it could seem contrived, but again, it worked well for me. I'm glad I read it, and I feel good about recommending it to others.
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Sabine Haider
2.0 out of 5 stars I don't know
Reviewed in Germany on January 9, 2013
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The book has its good points but the ending pretty much ruined it for me. Because really not the happy endings I like to read.
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