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Joe Kimball (pen name for J.A.
Konrath)
ACE
May 2011/ ISBN 0441019188
Science fiction
Amazon
Reviewed
by Jan Fields
Talon Avalon is a timecaster. He can use a TEV to see into the past.
Timecasters have basically brought crime to an end since it's easy
to see exactly what happened and to track criminals. Timecasting
is never wrong -- until the day Talon sees himself on his TEV killing
a woman he has never met. Talon is instantly on the run, trying
to find out exactly what is going on before his fellow peace officers
catch him. The fast-paced action feels very familiar in this book,
as we've seen this sort of plot in a dozen action movies where a
regular guy ends up on the run in a situation he could never have
expected. Think Total Recall meets Minority Report. Yet, even while
the story feels very familiar, you just cannot help enjoying it
because it's such an exciting thrill ride of a plot. Also Timecaster
never takes itself too seriously, and offers plenty of laughs along
with the
gasps.
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