Strange things are happening around a big company. ITC is featuring what they hold in their hands to obtain funders. But the researches they conduct are seemingly simple. Everything points toward bigger projects, which are in the hands of quantic physicists. An digging location is one of the focus of ITC. It's an ancient medieval monastery, but behind the dig-up, the company has been reconstructing the location without having discovered everything within the location itself. Nobody know how they make it. Soon, after the sudden disappearance of the professor in charge of the digging process, the other anthropologists make bizarre findings. And then they know all the truth behind the project, so they will have to go back, to the Middle Ages, if they want to save the professor...

 

   Chrichton has been always writing entertaining novels. But he also manages to inform his readers about the most exciting findings of modern science. This time is no exception. The setting is a little less elaborated but the research he's done himself is really big. Of course, one must be interested in doing it. Chrichton is a curious man, and history proves to be one of his main topics. The investigation behind the description of the Middle Ages is solid, not as the physics part. His theory seems at times childish, but well elaborated most parts of the novel. What again shines through is his rare style when he builds his characters. They are impersonal and cold, sometimes ruthless. So, we barely notice the personal life of this or that person, for we are more rapt in the cientific detail.

 

   The novel is interesting enough to be read thoroughly. The reader who is searching for action, history and quantic physics has the perfect read in Timeline.