Title: Hour of the Scorpion (Time Warrior #2)
Author: Matthew J. Costello
Publisher: ROC/Penguin USA
Year: 1991
ISBN: 0451451287
Description: 335 pages; 18 cm.
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In a strange red-tiled building located in a different Columbia University in a very
different New York City, physicists have invented a time machine, capable of
sending the "personas" of people -- though not their actual bodies -- backwards and
forwards in time. A contempory studies student, obsessed on the Beatles early history
manages to get himself sent back in time, not knowing that there was no way to
come back. Also not knowing that someone else had gone back in time, and was determined
to change history.
This is the second of a three book series, chronicling the adventures of grad student
Jim Tiber, as he starts out on an incredible adventure. Jim's obsessive desire to discover
just what changed the early Beatles from a rough skiffle band into a music powerhouse,
has landed Jim into the body of Jack McShane, a lieutenant in the US Army in Saigon in
1968. The other time travellers -- Stalinists who went underground at the time of Glasnost,
are again attempting to change history by changing what happened during the Tet Offensive.
Events that they planned would lead into World War III. Another excellent read.
Rating: (out of 100) 84. Decent characters, very good plot, and an interesting
scenario.
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