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Shift

A Novel

#1 in series

by Tim Kring
Dale Peck
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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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Gate of Orpheus Trilogy

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 10, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307750372
      • File size: 371628 KB
      • Duration: 12:54:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In this alternate history, author Tim Kring takes one of the most pivotal moments in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and weaves in a backdrop of clandestine LSD and mind-control experiments. The danger of a book like SHIFT is taking the real events so far from reality that they no longer seem plausible. Kring, creator of TV's "Heroes," manages that balancing act nicely. Narrator Robert Forster pulls the whole story together with a tough, slightly New Yorkish accent. He keeps up the frantic pace, helping listeners track a large cast of characters, many of whom have code names. His commanding performance makes this audiobook impossible to turn off. M.S. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      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.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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