Crime of the Centuries

Crime of the Centuries Type of work: Novel Genre and key words: Science fiction, time travel, Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons, dystopian future Eras and Settings: nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Germany, United States Rating: Mature Short description: In 1885, a mysterious serial killer, with multiple aliases, eludes the police in three different European countries. His victims include precocious children, miserly shopkeepers, a petty criminal, and a policeman. Swiss, German, and Austrian police want to know: Is he a disorganized madman or does he have some purpose? Who is he and where is he from? Richard Gerhard Becker turns out to have a purpose, and it is taking him on a grand, backward-forward-sideways journey through time that will link his destiny to that of one of the most hated men in modern history — Adolf Hitler. But Becker makes the mistake of joining forces with a woman whose identity is as mysterious as his own. At first attracted to her, he comes to worry...