by JohnKessel (Author)
August Faison and his gorgeous young daughter, Genevieve, are rogues of the first water - seasoned swindlers who rove across time in search of new victims to fleece. Now the most precious pigeon of them all has fallen into their laps, in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Dr. Owen Vannice is too innocent, and far too rich, for his own good. A fabulously wealthy young amateur paleontologist who has just spent the last year, and billions of his parents' dollars, doing research in the Cretaceous period, he finds himself stranded in the Holy City with a rapidly growing baby dinosaur in tow. Simon is a disillusioned disciple whose master has been kidnapped uptime by colonists from the future. Now he works for the exploitive crosstime corporations, which have turned his timeline into a tourist trap, complete with luxury hotels and junkets to the Crucifixion. When a desperate act of sabotage brings them all together, their lives are drastically transformed.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 02 Jul 1998
ISBN 10: 0575066113
ISBN 13: 9780575066113
Book Overview: John Kessel has won the Nebula and Sturgeon Memorial Awards for short stories, and a Paul Green Playwright's Prize.