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Killing time

Caleb Carr · 2000 · Novel

Setting: 2023

Synopsis

Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York's John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester. In this turbulent new world order, Wolfe's life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office.The widow hands him a silver disc from her husband's safety deposit box, hoping that Wolfe's expertise in history and criminology will compel him to track down her husband's killers.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Psychology teachersPresidentsAssassinationFictionScience fictionTwenty-first centuryFiction, thrillers, generalFiction, psychologicalPresidents, fictionTeachers, fiction

isfdb_id: 21992

openlibrary_id: OL2671483W

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