The Fifth Floor

Area 51: Time Patrol #4.5

by Bob Mayer

“We cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.” Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

"Before there was just me now, there was a bunch of other stuff that I don't remember. People keep telling me I should remember, but maybe if you can't remember there is a reason." Thus begins Lara’s story as she escapes from a mental Institution. Who is she? What reality should she believe?

In a crowded marketplace in Haifa, Lukas’s body is wrapped in a bomb, his hand on the detonator. But then, the young man has an awareness of all the lives of those around him, the possibilities, their hopes, their dreams and Lukas doesn’t detonate the bomb. Whisked away to a black site, the interrogators brutally try to find out why. Only to discover he has identical DNA with a patient in a mental Institution in the United States:Lara.

But this is impossible.

A psychological thriller traveling into the intimate and infinite realm of time and parallel worlds, in the genre of Westworld.

Is Lara’s reality the one where she’s holding a bloody knife and her family has been slaughtered? Is it the one where she’s in the mental institution against her will, being experimented upon? Is it the one where’s she working as a gardener for a woman who has secrets of her own?

There’s an even more frightening possibility with even more potential: That all of them are true.

The powers-that-be think they can dig for the answer. By sending her to the Fourth Floor.

That’s a mistake. Because there is a Fifth.

138 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2016

About the author

I'm a West Point graduate, former Green Beret and a New York Times Bestselling Author. I've sold over five million books.

I love using history and science in my books. My Area 51 series pretty much had me rewriting our entire history of civilization.

I also collaborate with Jennifer Crusie on our unique brand of suspense thrillers with humor.

Reviews

[Chance]

Book of self guidness

The novel was fast pace and really good pace with giving the history of a chacther Shrouded in mystery for a while so thx for giving answers to her past and expanding the knowledge of the shadows plans.

[Robert Mills]

Nice

A great fleshing out the Lara character from the Time Patrol series. I would rate higher but didnt know if the syntax errors were on purpose or mistakes.

[Michael]

Wow! Not what I was expecting. I am a big fan of Bob Mayer and his novels which all seem, in one way or another, to take place in the same universe.
This book seemed very different as it was written in a quite different style to his other books. However, it turns out to be linked to the Time Patrol stories.
I thought it was quite excellent and trust this will be the start of another series.

[Amy Rogers]

Although this book ended up being a category of books I don't typically read, it was a good read. The story moved along at a good pace though, and kept me interested. The major problem I had with this book were the spelling/grammatical errors. There were quite a few throughout the book, and I just had a hard time overlooking them.

[Matt McRoberts]

I rarely give a 1 star, but this book was kind of jumbled mess. My least favorite book by this author ever.

[Madison Dawn]

I originally started by giving this book 4 stars. I then reached a point where I just staled out on the book. I on't want to say I put it in my DNF pile, as I was still reading it somewhat consistently. But I did keep putting the book down to start other books I was a little more excited about and I would typically finish them before picking up The Fifth Floor. I have heard many great things about Bob Mayer and his Area 51/Time Patrol Series, I guess I was just let down.