The Outlaw Gillis Kerg
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“A brilliant premise and great fun . . . Original touches and time-travel intrigue keep Murphey’s clever fourth installment in the Physics, Lust and Greed series ticking along nicely … Murphey skillfully develops his intriguing time-travel concept and its implications along with delivering excellent characterizations. Marta and Marshall’s search for answers yields plenty of murky intrigues, sinister conspiracies, and deceptions leaping across the pages. Unexpected plot twists centering on Happy Home Companion cult of vengeance and Gillis’s involvement keep the reader invested. This is a solid entry in the continuing series.“ -The Prairies Book Review
In the mid-21st Century, a top-secret consortium of corporations and governments have made time travel possible, only to realize that intruding on the past has been a terrible mistake. At the program’s outset, a thousand scientists, engineers and support staff were confined to a subterranean complex where a corporate contributor specializing in artificial intelligence equipped their apartments with Happy Home Companion software.
Time traveler Marta Hamilton has little tolerance for other people intruding into her life, much less a software “Dear Abby,” so Marta bullies her Happy Home Companion into silence. Finally convinced of the grave dangers of time travel, government overseers suspend operations, and only the Happy Home Companion remains.
Marta and fellow traveler Marshall Grissom hope they can finally leave the past behind, but when a federal judge is murdered, they understand their vulnerability to horrible manipulations by future counterparts. Marta and Marshall return to the Arizona desert where they confront a Happy Home Companion cult of vengeance, the outlaw Gillis Kerg, and an evangelical zealot waging a war on science.
