Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Maine, discovers a temporal portal in a local diner’s pantry that leads directly to September 9, 1958. His friend Al Templeton, the diner's owner, tasks Jake with a mission: prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Jake assumes the identity of George Amberson and settles into the mid-century South to track Lee Harvey Oswald. He soon finds that the past resists alteration through violent coincidences and learns that small changes to the timeline create unpredictable, cascading ripples in the future.
Readers of historical thrillers and speculative fiction find value in this detailed reconstruction of 1960s American life. It attracts those interested in the mechanics of time travel and the "butterfly effect" on political history. The reader gains a granular understanding of the Lee Harvey Oswald investigation and a cautionary perspective on the morality of interfering with the past. It concludes with a stark demonstration of how individual actions, even those performed with noble intentions, can result in catastrophic global consequences.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
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