The Footprints of God

Dr. Andrew Fielding, a quantum physicist, is killed, although it’s made to look like he died of natural causes. David Tennant, MD, assumes he’s next. They are two of the six men in the inner circle of the scientific team funded by National Security Agency working on Project Trinity.

Trinity is a massive, secret (big surprise!) government-funded effort to build a supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence – a computer that thinks. David is on the team to keep the ethics in line, as he is a Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia Medical School. He has been seeing a psychiatrist, Rachel Weiss, the past few months because of his narcolepsy, the side effect he encountered after undergoing his ‘superscan’ into the Trinity computer. All six of the inner circle had been scanned and each had a different side effect. Thus, his crusade to find the cause of everyone’s neurological symptoms.

David figures out who killed Dr. Fielding, so he and Rachel have to make a run for it. The story details their narrow escapes, David’s realization of who is betraying him, and how he overcomes these difficulties. Who do you trust is really a big question. Trinity ‘goes live’ and causes chaos and confusion around the world. David and Rachel play a big part in getting Trinity working for good, not evil.

This was a tad too sci-fi for my taste and too long, partly because of the detailed descriptions of David’s hallucinations (where he sometimes sees himself as Jesus).  If you’re a computer nut and like technical subjects, you’ll like this book.

- Bonus Review -

Like the teachings of Jesus, the predictions of Michel de Nostradame, and the visions of Joseph Smith, it’s entirely possible that in a hundred years or so author Bob Miller’s diary entries about an angel named Zabar will serve their intended purpose.

In the meantime, humankind can at least enjoy the adventures of these two men, one being a simple farm boy from the backwoods of northwest Alabama and Zabar, an angel who is affectionately portrayed as a celestial Batman.

Zabar is quite a guy . . . dresses appropriately for every occasion, speaks well, and is very caring. But he has a big job to do, and if his matter-of-fact words of wisdom fall on deaf ears, watch out—he's not afraid to use the wrath of God to get his point across.

Some are receptive to him and his message, others aren't. These stories are a small sampling of events that take place around the world at every moment. Angel Zabar and the others like him stroll in and out of our lives like the wind. For lack of a better understanding and description, we simply refer to these events as miracles.

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