Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe， expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York s John Jay University in the year 2023， he lives in an era that has seen plague， a global economic crash， and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester. In this turbulent new world order， Wolfe s life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office.The widow hands him a silver disc from her husband s safety deposit box， hoping that Wolfe s expertise in history and criminology will compel him to track down her husband s killers. The disc contains footage of President Forrester s assassination， the same video that has been broadcast countless times on TV and over the internet-with one crucial， shocking difference: This version shows that before the video was released， it was altered with sinister special effects.This explosive discovery will lead Gideon Wolfe on an electrifying journey from a criminal underworld of New York to the jungles of Africa and on a quest to find the truth in an age when all information can be manipulated. With this novel， Carr has boldly established a new genre-future history-combining the best elements of mystery and thrillers with unique historical insight. Breathtakingly suspenseful，Killing Time unfolds as the work of a master novelist.