The Unknown Soldier

by Mickey Zucker Reichert

Overview

After saving a badly wounded amnesiac from death, Dr. Shawna Nicholson discovers that her patient has come from the future and is being pursued by deadly enemies who will stop at nothing to destroy him and anyone else in the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101663868
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	05/01/1994
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mickey Zucker Reichert is a pediatrician, parent, animal lover, and author of more than 20 novels, including those in the Renshai Chronicles, Legend of Nightfall, and Beasts of Barakhai series. She has also written one illustrated novella and more than 50 short stories. Reichert lives in Iowa with her husband and two of their children and divides her time between taking care of her family, writing, practicing medicine, teaching at the local university, and tending the assorted livestock that roam her 40-acre farm.

Editorial Reviews

Blasted back in time from 2085 to 1985, Special Forces Commander Jack Carrigan cannot remember his name or where he came from. He does recognize the voice of Chief Resident Shawna Nicholson, whom he meets in a hospital when he is brought in for treatment following the explosion which caused his amnesia. As Nicholson, another doctor and Carrigan flee armed Arab terrorists, also from the future, Carrigan's memory gradually returns. It turns out that Nicholson reminds him of Katry, a woman he loved and whose life he fatally risked on a mission in his own time. As the novel races toward a dramatic showdown over the time travel device which carried Carrigan back, he and Nicholson move toward an understanding with an unexpected but possibly welcome sexual advance made by this time-traveling Rambo. Reichert ( The Renshai Trilogy and the Bifrost Guardians series) has written an imaginative, colorful and well-researched adventure, made all the more convincing by such details as the death of a sympathetic character. However, Reichert demonstrates a repeated attachment to bad puns which distract from the story. ``I'm thirty, too,'' observes one character. ``That's thirty, also, not thirty-two.'' (May)

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