Timeline - Softcover

Michael Crichton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099244721 ISBN 13: 9780099244721

Publisher: Arrow, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) was the author of the bestselling novels The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Next, and Dragon Teeth, among many others. His books have sold more than two hundred million copies worldwide, have been translated into forty languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films. He wrote and directed Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Runaway, Looker, and Coma, and created the hit television series ER. Crichton remains the only writer to have had a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.

From the Back Cover

An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles away 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.
This mystery will catapult a group of young scientists back to the middle Ages into the heart of the Hundred Years' War.
Imagine the risks of such a journey. Imagine the impossible.
'Timeline combines all the ingredients that make Crichton's books compulsive reading... a brilliantly imagined story'
Iain Pears, Los Angeles Times

'Hollywood's favourite thriller writer evokes the experience of time travel superbly... a rollicking read'
Observer

'A thrilling race against time'
Express

Edition details

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099244721
• ISBN 13: 9780099244721
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512