Days of Atonement
by Walter Jon Williams
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0312851189
- ISBN 13
- 9780312851187
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About This Item
Peter Heck, Washington Post
"Williams' longest, most densely realized and successful book to date."
Roland Green, Chicago Times
"This is a novel that works marvelously on a variety of levels-- as an adventure story, a trek through personal entanglements, a study in detailed police techniques and an enlightening lesson in theoretical science. And if that isn't enough, it also offers a totally unexpected ending."
Loren Hawn is a traditional Western peace officer walking the streets of 21st Century New Mexico, and seemingly unaware that times have changed. And when a dying man named Randal falls out of a bullet-riddled car and dies in Loren's arm, Loren finds he isn't the only man living in the wrong time--- because he remembers pulling Randal's dead body out of a wrecked car twenty years before.
He knows the car belongs to a scientist who works at the high-security laboratory built on the outskirts of town, and he knows that if he doesn't work fast, all evidence of a crime will disappear into national security vaults. In order to bring justice back to his community, Loren will have to risk everything, his life, his job, his faith, and his family.
This is one of Williams' finest works.
"Williams' longest, most densely realized and successful book to date."
Roland Green, Chicago Times
"This is a novel that works marvelously on a variety of levels-- as an adventure story, a trek through personal entanglements, a study in detailed police techniques and an enlightening lesson in theoretical science. And if that isn't enough, it also offers a totally unexpected ending."
Loren Hawn is a traditional Western peace officer walking the streets of 21st Century New Mexico, and seemingly unaware that times have changed. And when a dying man named Randal falls out of a bullet-riddled car and dies in Loren's arm, Loren finds he isn't the only man living in the wrong time--- because he remembers pulling Randal's dead body out of a wrecked car twenty years before.
He knows the car belongs to a scientist who works at the high-security laboratory built on the outskirts of town, and he knows that if he doesn't work fast, all evidence of a crime will disappear into national security vaults. In order to bring justice back to his community, Loren will have to risk everything, his life, his job, his faith, and his family.
This is one of Williams' finest works.
Synopsis
Days of Atonement is the second crime novel by Michael G Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio writing under the name of Michael Gregorio. Like its predecessor, Critique of Criminal Reason, it is set in East Prussia during the height of Napoleonic wars, and once again chronicles the attempts of magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis solve a murder mystery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lemolo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1723
- Title
- Days of Atonement
- Author
- Walter Jon Williams
- Format/Binding
- Book VG, plastic wrap on VG DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312851189
- ISBN 13
- 9780312851187
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 437
- Keywords
- scifi, atocha, physics, small town, police chief
- Bookseller catalogs
- SciFi books;
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