Award-winning science-fiction mastermind Kenneth Johnson blends epic adventure, romance, and evocative drama into an intense supernatural thriller rooted in one of the great untold legends of human history.
New York City, New Year’s weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist, stumbles onto a tantalizing mystery: the same man, unaged, stands alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.
In another part of town, Will—an enigmatic thirty-three-year-old of immense charm, wit, and intelligence—looks forward to the new year with hope and trepidation. Haunted by his secret past and shadowed by a dangerous stranger, he finds himself the object of an intense manhunt spearheaded by an ambitious Vatican emissary and an elderly former UN envoy named Hanna.
During the next forty-eight hours, a catastrophic event unites Will, Jillian, and Hanna—and puts them in the crosshairs of a centuries-old international conspiracy. Together, the three must unravel an ancient curse that stretches back two millennia and beyond, and face a primal evil that threatens their lives and thousands more.
Not bad once you figure out the writing style Not sure their is a plot. The whole book feels like one 400 page chapter. It is like an episode of the TV show 24.. You get flashbacks, flash forwards, all from different points in history, and different points of view. Is it entertaining yes. Will it frustrate the crap out of most people yes.
Eighty-three pages in, and I cared about nothing and no one!!! Seriously, 83 PAGES? This book is a pass. Ok, can I just say that I am sick of writing critical reviews. Nobody likes them. They don’t make me happy. They don’t make the author happy. I frequently have to deal with angry comments… The entire operation is about as fun as a kick in the teeth. But in this case, I don’t know what else to say, because I hated this book. I quit at pg 83, and there isn’t a single one of those pages I didn’t have to force myself to read.Â
WOW! A truly exceptional story that grabbed and held my attention throughout! This book is exceptional. The story kept my interest throughout. Some reviewers objected the extensive descriptions. I found them absolutely exquisite in themselves, as well a way of increasing my anticipation for the next portion of the story. The author did a masterful job of weaving together the stories of the major characters with those of the minor ones. The main character was condemned to an eternity of wandering the earth, but the author did not reveal the reason until maybe halfway…