Author:Michael Crichton
Sometimes, it seems like you can reach out and touch the past...
An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket.
In France, Professor Edward Johnston and his students are studying the ruins of a medieval town. Suspicious of the knowledge of the site shown by their mysterious financier, he returns to the US to investigate. But in his absence, the students make a disturbing discovery in the ruins: the long-decayed remains of Johnston's glasses - and a message in modern English.
The implications are staggering. The consequences are earth-shaking. And the distant past isn't so distant any more.
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Increasingly considered an underappreciated classic that stands proudly alongside his more famous works like Jurassic Park and Westworld, Timeline confirms Michael Crichton as the king of the high-concept thriller, and a master storyteller to boot.
Timeline combines all the ingredients that make Crichton's books compulsive reading ... a brilliantly imagined story
—— Los Angeles TimesHollywood's favourite thriller writer evokes the experience of time travel superbly ... a rollicking read
—— ObserverA thrilling race against time
—— Daily ExpressA cracking thriller
—— Daily ExpressThe present and the long-ago past collide [as] three young historians whisk themselves back to fourteenth-century feudal France to rescue a friend - and engulf themselves in all manner of mind-blowing intrigue
—— Chicago Sun-Times[A] big rollicking book
—— The Wall Street JournalExciting ... classic adventure ... [a] swashbuckling novel ... Crichton delivers
—— USA TodayAn unusually political novel, this is as gripping and readable as any in the Reacher series.
—— The TimesIt's a testament to Lee Child's superb story-telling skills that...the interest doesn't flag for an instant...Like Reacher, Child doesn't do things by halves.
—— Yorkshire Evening PostGripping and addictive...Reacher's stripped-down life is echoed by Lee Child's lean and spare prose.
—— Irish IndependentOne of the genre's most enduring heroes. Tough, solitary, righteous and incorruptible, [Reacher] harks back to another great fictional detective, Philip Marlowe.
—— Glasgow HeraldA new Jack Reacher novel arrives as the year's first red-hot beach book...the success of these books rests partly on the big, hulking shoulders of their charismatic hero...one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape.
—— New York TimesThis haunting, stand-alone novel is a subtler work than Child's previous output and offers a sensitively handled romantic sub-plot to boot.
—— Daily Telegraph
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