EXPIRATION DATE About an hour ago, Chris Wade was shot in the back. In a few minutes, surgeons will dig out the slug. The police will analyze it, and wonder: Why would somebody kill this guy with a 50-year-old bullet? Chris Wade's apartment has a strange feature: In one room, it's 2009. In the other, it's 1959. In the present, Chris is broke and lives in a two0room apartment in a bad Philadelphia neighborhood -- his grandfather's old place. But whenever Chris walks into the second room, he's catapulted back into 1959, where people seem to think he's a private investigator. They also think Chris is his own grandfather. And they never stop arriving. Desperate people, in search of missing loved ones, family heirlooms, and wayward spouses. Soon, Chris realizes that he can u se his present-day internet connection to...well, "solve" these cases. But after a few weeks of playing time-traveling private eye, Chris discovers why clients keep showing up. And as he digs deeper into 1959 Philadelphia, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knew, Chris meets the ten-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below. The kid who will grow up someday and murder Chris's father. Rights Information Publisher: St. Martin's, Trade paperback (March 30, 2010) Territory: North America Rights Available: Translation via Baror International; Film/TV via Cheng Caplan Co. Reviews: Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

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About an hour ago, Chris Wade was shot in the back. In a few minutes, surgeons will dig out the slug. The police will analyze it, and wonder: Why would somebody kill this guy with a 50-year-old bullet?

Chris Wade's apartment has a strange feature: In one room, it's 2009. In the other, it's 1959.

In the present, Chris is broke and lives in a two0room apartment in a bad Philadelphia neighborhood -- his grandfather's old place. But whenever Chris walks into the second room, he's catapulted back into 1959, where people seem to think he's a private investigator. They also think Chris is his own grandfather.

And they never stop arriving. Desperate people, in search of missing loved ones, family heirlooms, and wayward spouses. Soon, Chris realizes that he can u se his present-day internet connection to...well, "solve" these cases.

But after a few weeks of playing time-traveling private eye, Chris discovers why clients keep showing up. And as he digs deeper into 1959 Philadelphia, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knew, Chris meets the ten-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below. The kid who will grow up someday and murder Chris's father.

Rights Information

Publisher: St. Martin's, Trade paperback (March 30, 2010)

Territory: North America

Rights Available: Translation via Baror International; Film/TV via Cheng Caplan Co.

Reviews:

Blurbs:

Purchase at Amazon.com