Killing Time is a dystopian novel by Caleb Carr set in the mid-21st century. Its first 22 (of 47) chapters were initially serialized in five special issues of TIMEhttps://web.archive.org/web/20001015025626/http://www.time.com/time/reports/v21/tech/carr5h.html and the complete work was later published in 2000 by Random House. It includes criticisms of the Information Age. The book was a departure for Carr, whose previous two novels (and his subsequent one) were crime thrillers set in the Victorian era.
Characters
Main characters Dr. Gideon Wolfe: the criminal and psychiatrist. Dov Eshkol: the antagonist, a ruthless, fanatic agent of the Israeli Mossad
Other Team-Members Prof. Julien Fouché: the molecular biologist Dr. Eli Kuperman: the anthropologist Dr. Jonah Kuperman: the archaeologist Colonel Slayton: the (ex-US-)soldier Dr. Leon Tarbell: the documents expert Larissa Tressalian: Gideon's lover/ former assassin Malcom Tressalian: leader of the team/ Larissa's brother
Minor characters Chief Dugumbe: leader of the African tribe, with which Dr. Gideon Wolfe lives upon writing down his story Mutesa: member of the African tribe, who becomes Dr. Wolfe's host and sponsor General Said: Malaysian warlord and arms dealer
Quotes "Mundus vult decipi" is a Latin phrase meaning "The world wants to be deceived" "It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge." "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past." — Patrick Henry, 1775
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