![]() ![]() It should be easy for Hugh to intervene and prevent the killing. The author knows his history, and it’s fun seeing historical characters and indeed, Berlin in 1914, if only to realise how serendipitous the success of the Serbian plot to kill off Franz Ferdinand was.Īs McCluskey says, it was all down to a wrong turn and a cheese sandwich. Her involvement, and Hugh’s diversions in Istanbul, almost scupper the plan before it’s even begun. The notorious McCluskey though, has plans of her own. It helps too, that he’s little to live for, having lost the will to live when his wife and children were mown down in a particularly nasty hit and run. Hugh has been chosen because, famous as ‘Guts’ Stanton, he’s brave and skilled. Papers left to the college by Sir Isaac Newton detail the possibility of time travel on a certain day, through a cellar in Istanbul, and Hugh is told to travel back to 1914, and to prevent the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, so averting the war. ![]() Hugh enjoys attending the nine lessons and carols at King’s College, and meeting the elderly dignitaries at the university, but his sense of equilibrium isn’t set to last. ![]() ![]() Whilst the internet age has taken over completely, and has obliterated shops and decreased the population’s attention span, some traditions still hold firm. Ben Elton’s view of England 10 years on seems plausible. This opening section is more or less conventional. ![]()
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