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Kill Time
by T.J. MacGregor
Time Travel,
Dissidents, Corruption and Decay
TJ MacGregor's Kill Time
depicts the corruption of society as a mother is abducted by government
agents and society's values turn extreme. Protection from outside
threats and and medical maladies turn rogue as extremism and corruption
enter the scene. Time travel heightens the suspense and
characterization as the author reveals history and future influence.
Nora's mother disappeared when she was a child. Now, as she
prepares to tell her husband that she wants a divorce, her childhood
fears come back to haunt her as her husband is taken away from her
right in front of her in a restaurant by FREEZE (Freedom and Security).
Labeled as a terrorist, there is no recourse and her attempts to find
out the charge become much too similar to a Kafka novel. As she traces
a trail of clues left by her husband, she uncovers medical research
gone awry, disappearing dissidents, political corruption and power
brokering, greed run rampant and an eerie connection to a television
show from the past. The ending leaves some things hanging but it works
well here, giving a vision that makes the reader ponder.
Kill Time addresses issues of our current
culture, indeed issues
faced throughout history, but in de-familiarizes them through time
travel and a futuristic feel. TJ MacGregor gets down to timeless
values,not specific political personalities or events, and in doing so,
reaches beyond party politics into the heart of human values. I adore
suspense that takes parts of culture perhaps good in the original
intention and twists them, showing the underside when "good" things
become too absolute, too fanatical. TJ MacGregor reveals the dark
underside of aspects of today's society without preaching and without
moralizing, leaving the reader to form their own ideas. As homeland
security and medical research cross the boundaries into corruption and
fanaticism, TJ MacGregor provides an eerie portrait.
The references to Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone and Jerry
Garcia and The Grateful Dead are just downright fun. TJ MacGregor's
thriller amuses with its look into 1968 culture and chills as time
travel brings an all too real look at the influence of television
albeit through the twisted and delightful vision of TJ MacGregor's time
travel suspense hunt.
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From the back
cover:
Nowhere To Run…
Nora
McKee has never forgotten the terrible day her mother was abducted by
government agents and “disappeared.” Now, it’s happening again. In a
crowded café on an ordinary street, they’ve come for her
husband, Jake,
a man who knows too much. And the last thing he says to Nora before he
vanishes is a chilling warning… Run, Nora, run…
Nowhere To Hide…
Alone
and hunted by a shadow organization that will stop at nothing to find
her, Nora is in a fight for survival far more important than she knows.
For she is a link to a discovery beyond all human imagining…a brilliant
experiment that has suddenly crossed the line into uncontrollable
nightmare…
Nowhere Is Safe…
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