About This Book
A Storm in Memphis Will Compton is a burned out time-traveling cop whose job has put his sanity on life support and he's not even sure he cares anymore. He desperately needs time to sort things out. Instead he gets dispatched to the most difficult case of his career. Now that criminals have time-jumped back to the day before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, can Will set aside his personal problems long enough to stop this group of illegal time travelers before they destroy the timeline... and the world as he knows it? Even before this mission, Will Compton's life was starting to unravel. His girlfriend was depressed; his best friend was crazy - still, the fate of the world depended on him doing his job and doing it right. Despite his issues he got up every morning and went to work. For twenty years, day after day, it was the same routine. He would travel through time, chasing down crazy people and profiteers who were using black market time machines, and eliminate them before they could change history. It was a dirty job... a job in the shadows. Yet in a world where everyone was so disgustingly nonviolent, Will was a man of necessary violence and there were very few left who were equipped to do what needed to be done. Nevertheless, he and those like him were considered freaks and thus outcasts in that peaceful world. After today, however, his life would never be the same. Today he was assigned to time-jump back to Memphis Tennessee on the day before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. April 3rd, 1968 of all days... why that day? You see, three hundred years before, mankind was on the brink of extinction following a devastating nuclear war. Eventually the remnants of America gathered in Washington DC. They arrived seeing nothing but a vast and desolate wasteland. . . until they saw the King Memorial. The thirty-foot statue, like a beacon of hope, rose from the ruins... visible for miles. The people saw the memorial's survival as a sign and rebuilt their society on the philosophies of non-violence, peace, and love - principles etched in stone on the surviving memorial's wall. For two hundred years the entire world was at peace - but the discovery of time travel changed everything. Hidden dissidents who longed for the violent ways of the past gradually arose from within this once peaceful society... all leading up to today's fateful mission. Suddenly Will is confronted with some impossible decisions. What would you do to ensure that your future survived... Could you kill your best friend? Could you let your lover die? Could you take the life of the hero the world has patterned itself after? These are only a few of the dilemmas facing Will Compton as he tracks down these hell-bent time-jumping criminals in the midst of a global nightmare.
