Killing Time (Carr novel)

Killing Time is a dystopian novel by Caleb Carr set in the Mid-21st Century. It was initially serialized in TIME and later published in 2000 by Random House. It includes criticisms of the Information Age (see quotes below). The book was a departure for Carr, whose previous two novels (and his subsequent one) were crime thrillers set in the Victorian era.

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