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Shift: A Novel
Written by Tim Kring and Dale Peck
Narrated by Robert Forster
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Reviews for Shift
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I love the premise for this story. Set in the 1960s, the plot revolves around LSD and mind control experiments, along the lines of MK-Ultra experiments done by the CIA. The writing is great, as far as the author's phrasing and technique. However, for me, the story is all over the place. At times, I felt like I was the one on acid! I was a third of the way into the book before the characters even began to link together enough so that the story made sense. There were too many characters jumping around in too many places. I had to work to follow the plot line and that made it impossible for me to get lost in the story.** I received a review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.com. **
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This science fiction/thriller novel takes place in the decade of the 1960s, with a focus on the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The decade has lost its distinction over the years because the descriptions in media, film, and fiction have lost their edge due to careless use of words. I remember it as a time of great inexplicable anxiety on many levels. The fear provoking events were so disjointed in expectation and time that recollections of our activities as individuals and society during the period could resemble the hallucinogenic trips described in the book. Tim Kring and Dale Peck have created a psychedelic screen play that is disturbing, familiar, and unwanted like a flashback from a not too pleasant acid trip. The story, written in short declarative sentences with lots of dialogue, involves an international cast of characters readers really do not want to know but are forced to care about. The action filled narrative includes murder and intrigue with references to Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, JFK, and many other early 1960s historical figures. The hook is the idea of the gate of Orpheus with the mythical lyre replaced by lysergic acid diethylamide. The chemical, like Orpheus's lyre, opens the gate of loss and remorse and allows entrance into unlimited time for understanding, redemption, and resurrection. At high doses of the drug, some people can enter the minds of others and use the secrets to not only control them but, like a nuclear bomb, unleash supernatural power that can be used for good or evil. This reminds me of psychedelic posters for rock bands at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco that read, "May the baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind." In this way, the Manchurian Candidate idea is connected to the assassination of JFK. I enjoyed the novel, especially the mention of the philosophy of William Blake as a foundation for apprehending the apparent chaos of the 1960s and the severing by a bullet of the last strand of our society's illusion of absolute rationality. I recommend that you read this novel and try to hold on to whatever you believe about yourself and the 1960s as a foothold on reality. But like Orpheus who used his lyre to gain entrance from the world of the living to Hades to retrieve his dead wife Eurydice, trust your equanimity when you read Shift, just don't look back.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This science fiction/thriller novel takes place in the decade of the 1960s, with a focus on the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The decade has lost its distinction over the years because the descriptions in media, film, and fiction have lost their edge due to careless use of words. I remember it as a time of great inexplicable anxiety on many levels. The fear provoking events were so disjointed in expectation and time that recollections of our activities as individuals and society during the period could resemble the hallucinogenic trips described in the book. Tim Kring and Dale Peck have created a psychedelic screen play that is disturbing, familiar, and unwanted like a flashback from a not too pleasant acid trip. The story, written in short declarative sentences with lots of dialogue, involves an international cast of characters readers really do not want to know but are forced to care about. The action filled narrative includes murder and intrigue with references to Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, JFK, and many other early 1960s historical figures. The hook is the idea of the gate of Orpheus with the mythical lyre replaced by lysergic acid diethylamide. The chemical, like Orpheus's lyre, opens the gate of loss and remorse and allows entrance into unlimited time for understanding, redemption, and resurrection. At high doses of the drug, some people can enter the minds of others and use the secrets to not only control them but, like a nuclear bomb, unleash supernatural power that can be used for good or evil. This reminds me of psychedelic posters for rock bands at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco that read, "May the baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind." In this way, the Manchurian Candidate idea is connected to the assassination of JFK. I enjoyed the novel, especially the mention of the philosophy of William Blake as a foundation for apprehending the apparent chaos of the 1960s and the severing by a bullet of the last strand of our society's illusion of absolute rationality. I recommend that you read this novel and try to hold on to whatever you believe about yourself and the 1960s as a foothold on reality. But like Orpheus who used his lyre to gain entrance from the world of the living to Hades to retrieve his dead wife Eurydice, trust your equanimity when you read Shift, just don't look back.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shift is the first of Tim Kring’s Orpheus trilogy: a blend of science fiction, fantasy and plain old spy story, it is based on the CIA’s Ultra programme, in which they experimented with LSD during the Cold War.Inspired by The Manchurian Candidate, the Agency hoped to perfect a mind control drug. In this story, they succeed: it is 1963, and Chandler Forrestal can both read and manipulate minds. The book contains cameos of historical characters like Lee Harvey Oswald, J Edgar Hoover and Mafia don Sam Giancana and explains their part in the assassination of JF Kennedy.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I received this from Read it forward and thought it was o.k. The story jumped around a bit, for the most part was really confusing. I do like the premise of the book and the characters are great. The author is very humorous and I like his style, although I would not rush out to buy his latest novel. All in all, a good read if you receive an Advanced Reader's Copy like I did.