Killing Time (Carr novel)
{{Short description|2000 novel by Caleb Carr}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox book
| isbn = 0-679-46332-1
| pub_date = November 9, 2000
| author = Caleb Carr
| publisher = Random House
| image = KillingTime.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| pages = 336
}}
Killing Time is a dystopian novel by Caleb Carr set in the mid-21st century.{{Cite web |date=2000-10-01 |title=Killing Time |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/caleb-carr/killing-time-3/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2024-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519132752/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/caleb-carr/killing-time-3/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2000-10-30 |title=Killing Time: A Novel of the Future by Caleb Carr |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780679463320 |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=Publishers Weekly}}{{Cite web |date=2001-11-01 |title=Killing Time |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Killing-Time-/pid=555525 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=Booklist}} It was initially serialized in TIME and later published in 2000 by Random House.{{cite news |last1=Asher |first1=Jim |title=Caleb Carr reaches 25 years into the future |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-caleb-carr/140370337/ |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=29 October 2000 |page=13F |access-date=6 February 2024 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206115240/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-caleb-carr/140370337/ |url-status=live }} It includes criticisms of the Information Age. The book was a departure for Carr, whose previous two novels (and his subsequent one) were crime thrillers set in the Victorian era.
Characters
=Main characters=
- Dr. Gideon Wolfe: the criminal and psychiatrist.
- Dov Eshkol: the antagonist, a ruthless, fanatic agent of the Israeli Mossad
= Other Team-Members =
- Prof. Julien Fouché: the molecular biologist
- Dr. Eli Kuperman: the anthropologist
- Dr. Jonah Kuperman: the archaeologist
- Colonel Slayton: the (ex-US-)soldier
- Dr. Leon Tarbell: the documents expert
- Larissa Tressalian: Gideon's lover/ former assassin
- Malcom Tressalian: leader of the team/ Larissa's brother
=Minor characters=
- Chief Dugumbe: leader of the African tribe, with which Dr. Gideon Wolfe lives upon writing down his story
- Mutesa: member of the African tribe, who becomes Dr. Wolfe's host and sponsor
- General Said: Malaysian warlord and arms dealer
Quotes
- "Mundus vult decipi" is a Latin phrase meaning "The world wants to be deceived"
- "It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge."
- "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past." — Patrick Henry, 1775