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A Fold in the Tent of the Sky

A Novel

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Struggling actor Peter Abbott is about to land the biggest role of his life. His audition for Calliope Associates—a clandestine private investigation firm made up of men and women with highly developed psychic abilities—requires only proof of Peter's psychic skills, no dramatic monologue.

Business is booming until members of the group begin disappearing at the hands of fellow psychic Simon Haywood. His genius is matched only by Peter's, but Simon alone discovers a unique way to use his extrasensory skills to travel back in time, committing crimes without any trace. Simon's mind grows warped and paranoid as the universe strains against his tinkering. Terrified that his extracurricular voyages will be curtailed, he plans to "erase" his colleagues. But Simon's methods are not exactly cold-blooded; instead he goes back to the moment of his victims' conception and prevents them from being created. Because no one in the present day recalls he or she ever existed, he's not caught . . . until Peter realizes what's happening. Now time is running out as Simon's sociopathic travels are disrupting the universe, folding and twisting the constraints of matter to a near-breaking point and threatening to spin the entire cosmos out of control.

A Fold in the Tent of the Sky takes murder into a new dimension as it races toward its electrifying, time-twisting climax.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 28, 1998
      Clandestine experiments with psychic powers and time travel threaten to destabilize the universe in this half-baked thriller set in alternate versions of the present and flashing back to various points in history. Calliope Associates assembles a group of psychics with the goal of harnessing their supernatural powers, along with the latest science, to collect information for Calliope's clients. The central technique involves sending the psychics on out-of-body experiences to gather data from specific times and places in the past. But one of Calliope's psychics, Simon Hayward, is a dangerous sociopath with his own agenda. He learns to materialize on his journeys into the past and change the course of history. Soon, he is eliminating his fellow psychics by traveling back in time and preventing their births--and Simon's tinkering with the past is wreaking other kinds of havoc, too. Peter Abbott, another Calliope psychic, figures out what Simon is up to and must find a way to stop him before he, too, is erased from history. With the exception of Simon (who's obsessed with the Beatles and Sharon Tate), Hale defines his large cast of characters vaguely. The psychics are distinguished by their varying abilities rather than by any depth of personality, and the frequently discussed paradoxes of time travel--fascinating subjects in better science fiction--are handled clumsily.

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