Two apparently random and separate things have happened in Eastbury, the quiet town in the novel. One, Randy Corliss is missing. The nine-year old boy lived with his mother, after his father left them since he was a baby. Now it appears that he is running away again, having tried once to escape to his father's house. But nobody thinks he is the one to blame. His mother barely notices him anymore and his urge to live with his father has increased as the time passes. Except that he isn't at his father's and the authorities warn the two worrying parents to expect the worst. Indeed, they don't know how much "worst" is.  And two, Julie Montgomery has died of SIDS, the Sudden infant Death Syndrome, having being a perfectly healthy litlle girl that one day just fell asleep and didn't wake up. The parents of the lost children pursue the paranoid suspicion that either their son didn't run away or that their little baby girl didn't die of SIDS. The investigation of the desperate parents reaches a terrible conclusion where a group of scientists is carrying out the God Project and they will keep doing so at any cost, without measuring the horrible consequences of their godplaying.

  

   Seemingly a novel that came out of Cook's mind instead of Saul's, "The God Project" is another mediocre and cardboardish story from the author of "Suffer The Children" or "Punish The Sinners".
To tell the truth, I stopped at the middle of the book and wondered out loud, what the hell am i reading this awful novel? Of course what I was doing is having fun. Even if it's an almost  universally acknowledged fact that his novels are very poor intents of suspenseful stories, John Saul writes quick novels that entertain from time to time. His prose isn't good and his plots are lifeless, but he reaches certain redemption drawing mean, really evil characters and giving his stories a conclusion where nobody, and I mean nobody, is safe from the despair; he describes awful deaths for the characters with whom you familiarize since the beginning :)

  

   Even if it isn't worth buying, you should read this one out of curiosity. Let's put it this way: If you see it (or any other Saul novel) second-hand and cheap, don't hesitate to buy it!