Review: Old, false stereotypes, impossible and unconvincing time travel, "good guys" planning to assassinate innocent children
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2014
In this story, many Israelis and one Mormon American are recruited as part of a massive effort to go back in time and assassinate some innocent children whose ancestors will later be terrorists attacking Jews around the world.I have really mixed feelings about this book.  Clearly the author knows how to write well, but I didn't realize going in that this was a science fiction book.  It relies on things like time travel (mastered in just a few years by those super-smart Israelis, while nobody else on earth was smart enough to take it seriously), which is not only impossible now but will remain impossible forever.  It was completely unconvincing.  Equally unconvincing were the betrayals by two Israelis who had love/sex affairs with an Iranian woman spy.The book also falls back on tired old stereotypes of how anything that Muslim countries do is evil and anything Israel does is wonderful and justified, even their plan to murder innocent children.  Any thinking person can see through nonsensical stereotypes like this.The book needs editing for spelling and grammar errors.After reading this book, I don't feel motivated to read any follow on books in the series.  I'm sure the author could write some other good books if he would drop the stereotypes and science fiction and edit the text.