Review: The Tut Clone Contracts by Jan Issaye Berkhout
★★★½ 
The year is 2020, and leading scientific minds work on their top secret project: the cloning of King Tut. With hopes of furthering their research, they happily engage in borderline practices, using fertility clinic hopefuls in their eccentric and inscrutable experimentation. Following early successes, the project is disbanded, and the clones are left to their own devices… but not for long. When the clones are brought together by the wiles of fate, they begin to realize the truth of their birth, and plan to live up to their birthright. A bizarre adventure to Egypt is underway in The Tut […]
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