Timeline- Michael Crichton (1-41)

Having read this book already I must state that the start to this book is rather confusing. It starts with some add in named Dan Baker and his wife Liz Baker streaming down a highway in the middle of the Arizona dessert. They hit a pot hole and stop to see if any damage was done. They got a flat tire. In a search for cell phone signal, Dan Baker comes across a delirious old, white bearded, man with a white lab coat on. Now, where the Baker's received there flat was 50 miles from the nearest anything. All they found on the man was a small clay triangle in his pocket. The old man couldn't speak. The bakers changed their wheel and took the old man with them. After an hour or so the Bakers took the old man to the hospital. The old man died 24 hrs later from internal bleeding. No doctor could explain this phenomenon. The old man was identified randomly by a big corporate company called ITC led by a cranky old man named Bob Donniger. The old man was swiftly cremated and wiped from existence by his only known colleagues at ITC. After all this, Crichton takes the reader half way around the world to a archeological dig site in France. They were digging and restoring the remains of two adjacent castles. Kramer, Donnigers right hand woman was on a business survey of the dig. See, ITC, a technology company, was funding an archeological dig. As crazy as this seems it will all make sense in a bit. Kramer lands and talks to the guys and specifically urges professor johnson, the leading archeologist, to come back to ITC for a "look around". This is the start of a journey.

      I absolutely love this book. And just a heads up, when I don't have a new book to read. I will be re reading this in the overlap time.