Timeline: A Novel by Michael Crichton

In this mystery from the writer of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Congo, a set of younger scientists tour back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue challenge that turns into a struggle to live alive.

In an Arizona desert, a person wanders in a daze, talking phrases that make no sense. Within twenty-4 hours he’s useless, his frame rapidly cremated by his best-recognized associates.

Halfway across the world, archaeologists make a surprising discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they may be swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational agency that has evolved an amazing technology.

Now this organization is set to get a risk not to look at the past but to go into it. And with history spread out to the present, the dead awoke to the living, and those women and men will quickly discover themselves combating for her very survival—600 years ago.