Assassin 13: A Time Travel Thriller Set in a Dystopian Future and 1927 Prohibition Hollywood

by Tom Reppert

In the dystopian 22nd century, Lauren Ramirez is an Assassin 13, the best at her profession. Betrayed by her employer, the president of the United States, on an off-planet op, she escapes when her spacecraft hurtles through time and crash-lands in 1927 Prohibition Hollywood, with its silent film stars and bootlegging gangsters. She finds herself an alien in an alien land.

Becoming friends with Pauline Windsor, one of Hollywood's top actresses and girlfriend of mafia chieftain Benny Sorrentino, thrusts Lauren into the middle of a gangland war. Even as she clings to her burning need for vengeance in the 22nd century, her relationship with the people she meets, stunt pilot boyfriend Remy Garnett, Pauline, and Pauline's young children, Rolly and Emmy, all begin to change the hard surface of her heart. Now she must decide whether to use her 22nd century talents and technology in their defense or abandon them to the vicious thugs and slip back into her own time to wreak vengeance on her enemies.

“A striking tale...” (Kirkus Reviews)

Genres: Science Fiction

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Published August 14, 2018

About the author

Tom Reppert is a veteran who served with 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam. After earning a BA in English and History at Western State College and master’s degrees in Creative Writing from Colorado State University and Professional Writing from University of Southern California, he spent decades teaching History, Literature, and Writing all over the world, mostly in Africa and Asia to international students. He has written several well-received historical and time-travel novels including The Far Journey, the Captured Girl, Assassin 13, and now The Light at Midnight. Look for them on Amazon and Audible.com or ask for them at your favorite bookstore.

Reviews

[Shawn Deal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great novel. I really enjoyed this time travel thriller especially when the story shifts to 1927 Hollywood. The author did well with this period in history really bringing it to life. The gangsters versus old Hollywood was so convincing and compelling story telling. Highly recommended.

[Wendy Cheairs · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would love to give this book more stars since the plot takes a mix of time travel and movies, oldies but goodies. I loved Lauren, one of our main characters. She is a well-developed character who I enjoyed in the book.
I enjoy Lauren and Matt's relationship, great banter and good chemistry between them. His love of movies helps so much.

The problems are not with the story itself but oh so many technical and grammar errors through the story. (Blond vs. Blonde, they mean different things.) Serious formatting problems, spacing issues, chapter breaks in odd places and so forth.

Also, some people are surprised at the level of violence in the book. I didn't personally have issues with it, but I can see where it would be off-putting.

[Steven Saunders · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of those books that I was upset about putting down whenever I ran out of reading time. That’s rare, so it got 5 stars. It was clever and exciting from beginning to end. I really grew to like the main characters. Tons of fun! I plan on reading another of Reppert’s books!