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 TodayNobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist
—— The Boston Book ReviewChandler's best novels carry the crime story to levels of artistry that have rarely been matched
—— Daily MailBrilliant . . . the story travels at exhilarating speed
—— The Times'John Burdett is purely and simply a wonderful writer, a genuine grown-up at work in a genre mostly populated by arrested adolescents...Bangkok 8 is a tour de force'
—— Washington Post'To say that Bangkok 8 in set in Bangkok is an understatement: it is suffused with the cooking smells, mired in the traffic jams and entangled in the bare limbs of the sex workers... not that the novel is slow going. Bangkok 8 goes from 0 to 60 in about 10 pages'
—— Time'Like a modern-day Indiana Jones adventure written by Evelyn Waugh...One of this season's cleverest and most stylish entertainments'
—— Wall Street Journal'Engaging, warm, humorous and poignant at the same time'
—— The Scotsman'This book is amazing . . . A must read'
—— Martina Evans , Irish Post
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