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Readers familiar with TJ MacGregor’s novels should have no problem sinking into this book, but newcomers might be at a loss, especially during the opening chapters of this novel simply titled KILL TIME. Things happen all at once, where weird happenings are perfectly ordinary and you just go along for the ride. At the start of the book Nora McKee is about to meet her husband Jake for lunch and ask for a divorce. Things have not been going well, especially with the way he has been behaving the last few months. He’s been very secretive and hinting at government conspiracies but not going into details. Shortly thereafter two agents from the Department of Freedom and Security (or Freeze, as they are referred throughout the book) are looking to take Nora's husband into custody. She then flashes back to when she was a young girl and her mother was taken into custody by Freeze, never to be seen again. Nora is then on the run trying to keep two paces ahead of a government organization who have gotten power mad and desperate in trying to replace the technology that they use to make undesirable people disappear permanently. What is Freeze’s purpose? Only a small group of people knows what is really happening and they are doing what they can to stop the organization known as SPOT, who are also Freeze’s overseers. Suffice it to say, KILL TIME is a work of science fiction with quite an original concept. However, it does not go into much detail when it comes to the organization’s previous victims but it does when it comes to their techniques. MacGregor’s book has traces of trials held by Joseph McCarthy and the Salem witch trials where anyone could be a victim just by someone pointing a finger. Nora is convincing in sorting out the surreal nature of her situation as well as some of her allies who appear to come out of THE TWILIGHT ZONE. The author does a good job with the characterization of the other characters including members of Freeze and the bosses at SPOT. It brings in the possibility of a sequel. This book starts in a promising direction; we’ll see where it takes us next time.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, September 2007
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