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Timeclot
Are all events predetermined by technologies we’ve created, or by some unknown power? If reality is what occurs after you stop believing in it, what happens when a few unwholesome folks stumble upon portals in the space-time continuum to change it? Greedy, politically motivated people gum up the works, altering the tapestry of time. Who eliminates the clots that divert time's tributaries? The Time Bureau of Investigation was established in 2070 so people with altered DNA can repair the damage done, assuring the flow of history.
225 pages, Paperback
Published June 16, 2016
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About the author
D.D. Cross
14 books28 followersD.D. Cross is the author of several novels and screenplays. Prior to a career in the entertainment industry, Cross attended graduate and medical school, earned two doctorates, trained in surgery, and made contributions to the scientific community.
The Eustice Seeney books are loosely based on factual events the author tended to whilst a fourth year medical student.
The novels: Fat Teeth, Depths of Deception, Zombie Corns in Clown Shoes, and a sequel to the Flesh Mechanics coming soon.
THE FLESH MECHANICS is a hardboiled mystery laced with romance and adventure.
The Eustice Seeney books are loosely based on factual events the author tended to whilst a fourth year medical student.
The novels: Fat Teeth, Depths of Deception, Zombie Corns in Clown Shoes, and a sequel to the Flesh Mechanics coming soon.
THE FLESH MECHANICS is a hardboiled mystery laced with romance and adventure.
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September 29, 2016
What a wild ride! Rats and snitches, blowhards and bitches, time traveling lovers, and DNA tweakers come together on this trip. The story’s woven like a fine rug that is more of a magic carpet ride that takes you to a bing bang of an ending. In the future people can modify DNA so you can bip into any era, never get sick and never get old. Crumbs try horning in on this and prolong their own little scams, but the future folks are not digging it. Crooked people try horning in on a technology unavailable and do it in a way that’s altogether, in that Usual Suspects, Fear and Loathing, Pulp Fiction way. All the characters have their own agenda, and everyone gets what’s coming. Cross brings his medical eduction and master of arts skills to bring everyone on their own mission into line. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, and just when you think you figured it out, you find some crumb zipping through a portal in the space-time continuum. It all makes sense, and time imposters revealed. A great tale with familiar characters and a quick read you’ll read again and again. It reads like a movie. I don’t want to give anything away, but this style keeps you glued to the page.
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What a wild ride! Rats and snitches, blowhards and bitches, time traveling lovers, and DNA tweakers come together on this trip. The story’s woven like a fine rug that it‘s more of a magic carpet ride that takes you to a bing bang of an ending. In the future people can modify DNA so you can bip into any era, never get sick and never get old. Crumbs try horning in on this and prolong their own little scams, but the future folks are not digging it. Crooked people try horning in on a technology unavailable and do it in a way that’s altogether, in that Usual Suspects, Fear and Loathing, Pulp Fiction way. All the characters have their own agenda, and everyone gets what’s coming. Cross brings his medical eduction and master of arts skills to bring everyone on their own mission into line. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, and just when you think you figured it out, you find some crumb zipping through a portal in the space-time continuum. It all makes sense, and time imposters revealed. A great tale with familiar characters and a quick read you’ll read again and again. It reads like a movie. I don’t want to give anything away, but this style keeps you glued to the page.
Merged review:
What a wild ride! Rats and snitches, blowhards and bitches, time traveling lovers, and DNA tweakers come together on this trip. The story’s woven like a fine rug that it‘s more of a magic carpet ride that takes you to a bing bang of an ending. In the future people can modify DNA so you can bip into any era, never get sick and never get old. Crumbs try horning in on this and prolong their own little scams, but the future folks are not digging it. Crooked people try horning in on a technology unavailable and do it in a way that’s altogether, in that Usual Suspects, Fear and Loathing, Pulp Fiction way. All the characters have their own agenda, and everyone gets what’s coming. Cross brings his medical eduction and master of arts skills to bring everyone on their own mission into line. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, and just when you think you figured it out, you find some crumb zipping through a portal in the space-time continuum. It all makes sense, and time imposters revealed. A great tale with familiar characters and a quick read you’ll read again and again. It reads like a movie. I don’t want to give anything away, but this style keeps you glued to the page.
July 3, 2016
A very exciting and mysterious story with a lot of twists and turns until the ending that was pulling everything together with a bang. Every character is with their own motives and some from other books by Cross (Onions Bunions Corns and Dungeons, Field of Corns, Chrome Plated Corns) come alive to make history right. Each paragraph or chapter either tells you a little about the character or pushes the action forward arousing the curiosity. Very very good book!
June 18, 2016
Fast mysterious and a great ending that I will not mention. The story starts with a bang and the characters who are familiar with Cross's books will remember them like old friends. I got this copy this morning and could not wait to start reading about Doc Beaufort, CP, Grinder, Nadine, Milly and the scary May-Li as they went through portals in the space-time. A terrific can not put down book.
September 29, 2016
This ride brings together a familiar crew (for those who’ve read Onions Bunions Corns and Dungeons, Chrome Plated Corns, Field of Corns) to make history their own way. Time traveling, DNA modified folks who’ve all got their own agendas, political philosophies, and dubious goals. Doc Beafuort (a country doc from no country anyone’s ever heard of), his companion Milly, Grinder, CP, Eddy, Nadine - Folks who’re bent, sober, sane, mad and twisted scheme for themselves to reach [at times] dubious objectives to make history flow in ways not pre-ordained by the Time Bureau of 2070. Is it the indwelling animus among some of the recurring characters to make history flow for their own personal objectives? In this companion reader to folks who enjoy a twisted turn of events, wild and wacky dialogue, this book works well—better than well—Everyone gets what’s coming, and the ending brings together a richly forged foray into what-ifs, and makes it all make sense.
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Read this last night, kept me up. Here is what I think -If you put Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, Ross Thomas, Hunter Thompson, Ray Bradburry and Ian Flemming in a room with a full bar (and who knows what else) maybe they might concoct a tale like this. It takes you on a trip that goes in all directions leading to a knock you out on your feet end. A great book! Timeclot brings some of Cross’s familiar characters back through space time to stop a quirk in history that would shake up the world - We wouldn’t know the world if Doc Beaufort and his crew didn’t set things right.
Merged review:
Read this last night, kept me up. Here is what I think -If you put Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Chandler, Ross Thomas, Hunter Thompson, Ray Bradburry and Ian Flemming in a room with a full bar (and who knows what else) maybe they might concoct a tale like this. It takes you on a trip that goes in all directions leading to a knock you out on your feet end. A great book! Timeclot brings some of Cross’s familiar characters back through space time to stop a quirk in history that would shake up the world - We wouldn’t know the world if Doc Beaufort and his crew didn’t set things right.
September 29, 2016
The book questions what reality is and that through a series of events a woman, wants to stop aging. She manages to connect with a somewhat criminal oriented time traveler whose job was to make history continuous (there is a bureau that is from the future that makes sure history goes the way it is supposed to). The thought of predetermination based on technology we create is presented through amusing characters that sift through tiny changes that have an effect on later changes. At first you do not know who is messing with what and why, but as the chapters reveal the greedy woman's objectives are revealed as well as the treasonous time traveler. Familiar people from Cross's other books are in full force and funny and thoughtful and explain complicated science easily. I have to say it was interesting and will read it again and laugh at some of the wise cracking characters like the "country doc from no country ever heard of." Strong language and things not suitable for younger readers. I gave it five stars because it was fresh and kept me engaged. Hint about the ending is that you would never guess how it is all pulled together.
September 29, 2016
A very tricky story that takes you through holes in space time and characters who come and go through them. Expect the unexpected because the ending is stunning. Along the way characters motives and schemes unravel. I am a fan of Cross's books and thoroughly enjoyed the surprises and slick dialogue.
Merged review:
A very tricky story that takes you through holes in space time and characters who come and go through them. Expect the unexpected because the ending is stunning. Along the way characters motives and schemes unravel. I am a fan of Cross's books and thoroughly enjoyed the surprises and slick dialogue.
Merged review:
A very tricky story that takes you through holes in space time and characters who come and go through them. Expect the unexpected because the ending is stunning. Along the way characters motives and schemes unravel. I am a fan of Cross's books and thoroughly enjoyed the surprises and slick dialogue.
June 18, 2016
Amazingly energized with vivid imagery of a past for people from the future that infiltrate modern day people who want to change their lot in life. The intrigues build upon themselves as some try stealing the genetic altering material from the future for personal enrichment. It is an authentic wave of who’s up to what and why and when. The ending pulls all together and I can see it like a movie.
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