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Killing Time - Caleb Carr
Killing Time
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IT IS THE GREATEST TRUTH OF OUR AGE: INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE Manhattan, 2023. Vera Price's husband has been murdered, and she wants criminal psychologist Dr Gideon Wolfe to investigate. On a disk she gives Gideon is the information that almost certainly cost her husband his life. For... show more
IT IS THE GREATEST TRUTH OF OUR AGE: INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE

Manhattan, 2023. Vera Price's husband has been murdered, and she wants criminal psychologist Dr Gideon Wolfe to investigate. On a disk she gives Gideon is the information that almost certainly cost her husband his life. For America is still in shock after the murder of its president, and the disk suggests the wrong man has been convicted...

In the internet age, the world is drowning in information. And in a sea of unregulated and unverifiable facts, the truth is harder and harder to find. And as Gideon discovers, although there are those who want to put an end to this, their actions have the consequences of not only killing people, but of killing time itself...
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780751530759 (0751530751)
Publisher: Warner
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
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Dispatches from Terabithia
Dispatches from Terabithia rated it
3.0 Killing Time
written in a (u/dys)topian literary style, which includes a typical banging of the ideologue drum. surprisingly perceptive, given that it was published in 2000, is talking about many of the things we deal with today - misinformation and dissemination of the "official story", privacy, corporate influ...
Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it
4.0 Killing Time a
A book that still has me wondering, a polemic look into the future where the issues are more important than the thriller aspects, a story of love and tragedy and near-future nastiness. Written before 9-11 but some of the points are quite poignant!
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
1.0
Do you remember that bit in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency when it turns out two brothers have been working under the one doctor's certificate? I wonder if there are two Carr brothers up to the same shenanigans because this is truly awful.Onwards and upwards - bring on the next!
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