He built the machine that breaks time. They used it to bury him.
Dr. Calvin Thompson is the finest time-travel scientist alive — and the last man his own project wants to see make history. He fought for every degree in a field that never wanted him. He gave the work everything: his nights, his marriage, every school play his daughter ever performed in. He was days away from becoming the first human being to walk through time.
Then the colleague who couldn't survive coming second flipped a switch.
Savannah, Georgia. April 3, 1831.
No lab. No team. No papers. No proof he ever existed. In this century, a Black man's intellect is not an asset — it's evidence of a crime, and his body is somebody's property. The failsafe his own father engineered will open a return window exactly once, in August, a thousand miles west. Four months. A thousand miles. Across the deepest years of American slavery, through patrols and slave catchers and dogs and bounty men, with nothing but what he can carry and what he can survive.
And back in the future, his rival sends a professional after him — armed with a weapon this century won't invent for another two hundred years.
Calvin doesn't make the run alone. He crosses paths with Mary Sue, an enslaved woman with more nerve than he has, and Jim, a boy who watched his mother die on a rope. They own nothing — not even themselves. Before it's over, they'll teach a man who had everything exactly what he squandered.
Genius got him there. Only endurance gets him out.
Time Jack is a sci-fi survival thriller that uses a time machine to do what straight drama can't: drop a modern man into the machinery of American slavery and ask what he's actually made of. It's a chase, a reckoning, and a father's long road back to a daughter he kept disappointing.
From John "Divine G" Whitfield — Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of Sing Sing, PEN Award–winning playwright, co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and author of eight novels.
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Specs Format: Paperback · Pages: 372 · ISBN: 978-1940765174 · Publisher: Divine G Entertainment · Ships in: 7 business days.
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He built the machine that breaks time. They used it to bury him.
Dr. Calvin Thompson is the finest time-travel scientist alive — and the last man his own project wants to see make history. He fought for every degree in a field that never wanted him. He gave the work everything: his nights, his marriage, every school play his daughter ever performed in. He was days away from becoming the first human being to walk through time.
Then the colleague who couldn't survive coming second flipped a switch.
Savannah, Georgia. April 3, 1831.
No lab. No team. No papers. No proof he ever existed. In this century, a Black man's intellect is not an asset — it's evidence of a crime, and his body is somebody's property. The failsafe his own father engineered will open a return window exactly once, in August, a thousand miles west. Four months. A thousand miles. Across the deepest years of American slavery, through patrols and slave catchers and dogs and bounty men, with nothing but what he can carry and what he can survive.
And back in the future, his rival sends a professional after him — armed with a weapon this century won't invent for another two hundred years.
Calvin doesn't make the run alone. He crosses paths with Mary Sue, an enslaved woman with more nerve than he has, and Jim, a boy who watched his mother die on a rope. They own nothing — not even themselves. Before it's over, they'll teach a man who had everything exactly what he squandered.
Genius got him there. Only endurance gets him out.
Time Jack is a sci-fi survival thriller that uses a time machine to do what straight drama can't: drop a modern man into the machinery of American slavery and ask what he's actually made of. It's a chase, a reckoning, and a father's long road back to a daughter he kept disappointing.
From John "Divine G" Whitfield — Academy Award–nominated screenwriter of Sing Sing, PEN Award–winning playwright, co-founder of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and author of eight novels.
✍️ SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE — Signed directly by the author. Add a signed and personalized copy at checkout.
Standard — $15.00
Signed & Personalized by Divine G — $25.00
ORDERED DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR
Every copy ships from Divine G Entertainment in Brooklyn — not a warehouse.
Specs Format: Paperback · Pages: 372 · ISBN: 978-1940765174 · Publisher: Divine G Entertainment · Ships in: 7 business days.
Also available: cinematic audiobook (full character voicing and sound design) and eBook in PDF + EPUB.
