TY - BOOK AU - Crichton,Michael TI - Timeline SN - 9780345468260 AV - FIC T56 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - Twenty-first century KW - Fiction KW - Quantum theory KW - Time travel KW - Historians KW - France KW - History KW - 14th century N1 - "#1 New York Times Bestseller" -- Cover; "Now a major motion picture" -- Cover; Originally published: 1999; Includes bibliographical references (pages 492-496) N2 - In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival–six hundred years ago. . . ER -