Time Assassins
by R Kyle Hannah
During the late
80s and early 90s there were two television series that I found I enjoyed a
lot. Quantum Leap where scientist Sam
Beckett keeps getting bounced around in time to correct things that have gone
off track and Time Trax which followed a time cop name Darien Lambert around as
he retrieved criminals who had escaped into the past to make their fortunes or
just plain act psychotic.
Time Assassins
goes about the timeline business from a darker angle and also seems to delve
into the type of storytelling prevalent in the Watchmen. An assassins guild in the twenty-third
century takes in applicants much like the old Shaolin Monks did in the Kung Fu
series with David Caradine. The
apprentices, if accepted, progress through years of study to become assassins
or support staff that travel through time to tweak history by removing pivotal
decision makers.
This describes the
environment that the reader finds themselves coming to terms with as drama and
action unfold. There is romance, rogue
operators, a secretive council that is answerable to no one entity and a very
rich man who feels the world is his to do with as he pleases.
I enjoyed this
excellent adventure which spans a large chunk of history and explore many might
have-beens. This would be a good book
for age thirteen and up.
