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A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if.
Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being given a massive dose of LSD, Chandler develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler’s heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy.
Propelled to prevent the conspiracy of assassination and anarchy, Chandler becomes a target for deadly forces in and out of the government and is pursued across a simmering landscape peopled by rogue CIA agents, Cuban killers, Mafia madmen, and ex-Nazi scientists . . . all the while haunted by a beautiful woman with her own scandalous past to purge, her own score to settle. Chased across America, will Chandler be able to harness his “shift” and rewrite history?
Combining the nonstop style of Ludlum with the sinister, tangled conspiracies of DeLillo and Dick, and featuring cameos from Lee Harvey Oswald to Timothy Leary to J. Edgar Hoover, Shift is a thriller guaranteed to be equal parts heart-stopping and thought-provoking.
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- ISBN: 9780307453471
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July 5, 2010
At the start of this unsuspenseful alternative history thriller from TV screenwriter and producer Kring (Heroes) and Peck (Body Surfing), 1,963 people see an apparition of an oversized flaming boy in the Dallas sky at 11:22 a.m. on December 30, 2012. These numbers correspond to the year, month, and day of President Kennedy's assassination. Flashback to Cambridge, Mass., in October 1963: an attractive woman in the pay of the CIA seduces Harvard grad student Chandler Forrestal, a nephew of Truman's defense secretary, so she can slip him some LSD. The Company believes the drug allows those who take it to access a secret part of the brain known as the Gate of Orpheus. The authors score points for originality in mixing LSD with the events and usual suspects, including the Mafia and J. Edgar Hoover, leading up to Dealey Plaza and the fatal day, but their implausible hidden history of how the world works never coheres. -
July 1, 2010
Kring is the creator, executive producer, and writer of the recently canceled television series "Heroes" which followed the lives of several characters who accidentally acquire superpowers. Peck is a novelist ("Sprout" who has written extensively on pop culture. Together, they have written this "alternative history" of the events leading up to and following the JFK assassination on November 22, 1963. The format will be familiar to "Heroes"fans: fast action, multiple characters, and a bewilderment of subplots that move forward to the climactic event in short hops. When a CIA agent gives Chandler Forrestal an LSD cocktail, Chandler develops the ability to read and even control minds. Everyone wants Chandler; he could be the Cold War's new superweapon. He is pursued by a rogue CIA agent and by Russians as he tries to rescue a beautiful hooker who has also acquired telepathic abilities. Meanwhile, a brainwashed assassin moves toward Dallas. VERDICTThis first title in a projected trilogy won't earn literary prizes, but it's good fun. "Heroes"fans and readers who enjoy such authors as John Twelve Hawks and Neil Gaiman will want to read this. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ"5/15/10; ebook ISBN 906-0-307-45347-1.]—David Keymer, Modesto, CACopyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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