- Reborn (novel)
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name = Reborn
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author =F. Paul Wilson
illustrator =Stephen Gervais
country =United States
language = English
series =The Adversary Cycle
genre =Fiction
publisher =Dark Harvest
release_date = March1990
media_type = Print (Hardcover andPaperback )
pages = 315 pp (Trade Hardcover Edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-913165-52-2 (Trade Hardcover Edition)
preceded_by = The Touch
followed_by = Reprisal"Reborn" is the fourth volume in a series of six novels known as
The Adversary Cycle written by Americanauthor F. Paul Wilson . First published in March 1990 by Dark Harvest.Plot Summary
Almost immediately after being slain by Glaeken in a castle keep in Romania in the Spring of 1941 Rasalom has opportunistically entered the body of a clone that grows within a woman hired by the scientist in charge of a project seeking to create a genetically enhanced super-soldier for the U.S. Army.
The boy comes to term, is born and grows into an unusually strong and aggressive specimen but has a personality of his own which prevents the johnny-come-lately Rasalom from doing anything but secretly encouraging his host whenever possible to indulge his inclination to violence.
This all changes when the host dies a seemingly untimely death in his late 20s and the fetus conceived by his wife becomes the newest, un-co-opted vessel for evil. The wife Carol acquires one chief protector in the form of a lifelong sociopath and occasional murdering psychopath known as Jonah Stevens. He stops at nothing to ensure the baby's survival and guarantees that Rasalom will have more than a fighting chance to take over the Earth after attaining early adulthood.
The ancient being known as Glaeken is content to take a back seat to all of this as he feels he has earned his permanent retirement from the battle between the forces of Darkness and Light. He realizes that a major confrontation is inevitable but placidly aspires to count himself and his wife Magda among the dearly departed before that dark day descends with a deafening thud upon humanity's collective cranium.
The Adversary Cycle
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