Reborn (novel)
 First edition | |
| Author | F. Paul Wilson |
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| Cover artist | Stephen Gervais |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Adversary Cycle |
| Publisher | Dark Harvest |
Publication date | March 1990 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 315 pp |
| ISBN | 0-913165-52-2 |
| OCLC | 21388866 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3573.I45695 R4 1990 |
| 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 American author F. Paul Wilson. First published in March 1990 by Dark Harvest.
In 2009, a revised edition was published.
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.
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