The Echo Vector

by James Kahn

Jordan Marks, a young emergency room doctor, begins to suspect that there is a connection between a mysterious new disease and a vicious serial killer

226 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

James Kahn is an ER doctor, novelist, TV writer-producer, and singer-songwriter. In addition to many original novels (including the sci-fi trilogy World Enough and Time, Time’s Dark Laughter, and Timefall) he authored the novelizations of Return of the Jedi, Poltergeist, The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

His television credits span the genres, from St. Elsewhere, to William Shatner’s TekWar, to Xena: Warrior Princess. He was a Supervising Producer on Star Trek: Voyager, Co-Executive Producer on Melrose Place, Emmy-nominated for his work on All My Children, medical advisor on Spielberg’s ET: The Extraterrestrial; and produced the feature film The Bet, which won Best Feature at the LA Femme Film Festival, 2013.

He’s previously released four Americana music CDs, including Waterline, The 12th Elf, Man Walks Into A Bar, and The Meaning of Life. Matamoros is the first simultaneous novel and CD release, and his first foray into deeply researched historical fiction.

Reviews

[Lloyd Beattie · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 - a pleasant surprise of a read from a random book I picked up in a charity shop due to the cool cover. The story got a bit lost in the weeds near the end but it all came together nicely, if not a little disappointingly.