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# The Revisionists

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			        		&quot;An extraordinary trip to the near future ... Questions of fate versus free will, utopia versus reality, and the implications of a world without racial and ethnic lines add terrific human depth to the whiz-bang gadegtry of Mullen&apos;s imagined world ... a very high-brow spin on the spy novel and science fiction.&quot;&#x2015;Atlanta Magazine&quot;Blade Runner meets John le Carr&#xE9;....a thoughtful, suspenseful novel of intrigue.&quot;&#x2015;Paste Magazine (A Best Novel of the Year)&quot;An imaginative, elegant work of literary sci-fi, set in modern-day Washington, D.C....What transpires in the final act is as powerful for its well-paced revelations as it is for the ethical questions it raises.&quot;&#x2015;Los Angeles Magazine&quot;A grippingly readable book, creating a kaleidoscopic world where the reader&apos;s sense of what&apos;s going on changes with every chapter ... thrills grounded in intelligence and compassion.&quot;&#x2015;The Columbus Dispatch&quot;Provocative... relentless...Mullen delivers.&quot;&#x2015;The Tampa Tribune&quot;Mullen is a skilled storyteller ... [THE REVISIONISTS is] much more than a page-turning techno-thriller. It also serves as a vehicle for .. an indictment of avoidable human folly leading to wars year after year, decade after decade, century after century.&quot;&#x2015;The Atlanta Journal-Constitution&quot;The Revisionists is a devious and absorbing novel that challenges the reader at every turn, not letting up until the final pages. I loved it.&quot;&#x2015;Olen Steinhauer, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Tourist and Nearest Exit&quot;Sharp as razors, savage and immense in its power and weird beauty.&quot;&#x2015;Warren Ellis, author of RED, Crooked Little Vein, and Transmetropolitan&quot;Mullen explores the ethical implications of time travel in this excellent thriller set in the near future...The complex concatenation of events that follows make this book a one-sitting read despite its length.&quot;&#x2015;Publishers Weekly (starred review)&quot;This well-written cross-genre book is a great reading experience. As told from multiple points of view from four fully developed characters, the engaging plot and ultimate resolution will leave you still thinking about the possibilities long after you turn the last page. THE REVISIONISTS will appeal to readers who like smart literate works in any genre-it&apos;s a contemporary thriller with a science fiction vibe, written by an author known for literary fiction.&quot;&#x2015;San Diego Union-Tribune (a Best Novel of theYear)
						    	
					    	
						
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			        		Thomas Mullen is the author of The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA Today and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction, and The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers. His books have been named Best of the Year by such publications as the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Onion, and .com. He lives with his wife and sons in Atlanta.
						    	
					    	
						
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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Past and future clash in the present
        
*by S***N on June 23, 2012*

Mullen's third novel, a dystopian time-travel, was drowned out in the literary world by Stephen King's time travel epic, 11/22/63. Actually, both novels are ideal as bookends; in King's book, the protagonist goes back in time to try and alter history, whereas Mullen's protagonist, Zed, is an agent from the future employed to preserve history exactly as it is and prevent disruption or changes. If you add Orwell's 1984 (constant surveillance) and Farenheit 451 (destruction of historical documents), you have a riff of Mullen's themes. However, he created his own artistic, original, and literary novel that asks disturbing questions from all sides and parallels many of the contemporary concerns of our post 9/11 world.Date unknown, but we have survived the "Great Conflagration," a period of warfare and global destruction that started in Washington, D.C. during the 21st century and led to the now "Perfect Present." The Perfect Present is canny once you understand that this semi-utopian existence is a mixed bag. Yes, there is world peace, no hunger, and no religious wars (and no religion), and race is essentially a non-issue, as everyone is mixed.But, at what cost this Perfect Present? For one thing, all history is sacred, yet exiled from citizens' knowledge. The past is considered dangerous, because it is psychologically and socially harmful to dwell on the events that caused wars and disasters. The government forbids historical knowledge to circulate; moreover, when a loved one dies, all traces of them are erased in a haunting and treacherous manner.Zed, a government-employed time-traveler, is known as a Protector, another sly term used to denote the active preservation of history, a euphemism for protecting atrocities such as the Holocaust, 9/11, and World Wars--necessary in order to ensure that the Perfect Present now exists. Zed is cybernetically enhanced with the power of GPS and has superhuman surveillance skills. His "contemp" (21st century) name is Troy Jones.Certain rebels or "hags" are anti-government agitators who believe that people deserve to know their history, and part of their job is finding ways to access hidden and confidential historical documents. The hags travel back to the past and attempt to prevent specific horrors from occurring. These time travels provoke cat-and-mouse chases between the Protectors and the hags. Zed's job is to eliminate the hags and protect the Perfect Present.This is as much a novel of ideas as it is a spy thriller. Characters wrestle with themes of protection vs power, of morality vs truth, and also grapple with identity, memory, and loss. In addition, the question of life's narrative is ubiquitous in the story--continuity, progression, recall, and interpretation. Moreover, how do you preserve history, when you are standing in it? What happens if you get involved with a person from the past? Supposedly, some people count more than others, and minor changes with insignificant members of the population don't necessarily affect the future. But Zed is standing close to the precipice, facing a steep chasm of people and history, flirting with fissures.Tasha is a young corporate lawyer in D.C. grieving for her soldier brother's death in Iraq, and troubled by the information she was given. She doesn't believe the government's story about what happened, which leads her on a mission of her own, and a potentially perilous breach of ethics. She meets Zed at a demonstration. He is breaking the rules by consorting with "contemps," but figures that there will be no butterfly effect from his interactions with her.Leo is a former CIA spy now working for a morally ambiguous security company. He is asked to tail some anti-government/anti-war activists in the D.C. area. While grocery shopping, he meets a beautiful Indonesian nanny, Sari, who works for a Korean diplomat and his wife. Her inscrutable air fails to conceal some ugly facial bruises, but she isn't talking.The twists and turns are about two steps ahead of the reader, but with a casual pace that burns slowly and effectively, allowing time for character building and depth, and for ideas to flesh out. And, no matter how refined the technology, everyone is damaged and, to some extent, working with crude tools. And, as in life, not all questions can be resolved. But there's love, and a knock at the door. Will (s)he answer it?
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A game of chess in four dimensions
        
*by J***T on October 19, 2012*

Fiction has always had its "genres", each of which has its rules and cliches:  Literary Fiction is meant to involve timely issues and recognizably contemporary characters to whom we can relate on an emotional level; Spy Novels and Thrillers are meant to dazzle us with their clever plot turns and action; Science Fiction has always involved speculative technology, future worlds, and perhaps some implied commentary on the state of our own world.  Today's best fiction willingly, even eagerly, crosses these boundaries in the hopes of achieving all these things at once, and very few books of my acquaintance do so quite as successfully as this one.  On one level we meet two women dealing with difficult and emotional personal issues; on another level we find two spies, one from our time and one from the future, who become involved with these women. At the same time the spies, being spies, are dealing with various plots and counter-plots of their own, including some "Historical Agitators" who have also traveled back in time with the aim of altering history.  The author skillfully weaves all these complex story lines together and fashions a very satisfying conclusion.  Along the way there are some trenchant critiques of our society and subtle hints of what the future will bring.  This is entertainment of the highest order.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I was immediately drawn in to this novel.
        
*by D***Y on January 20, 2012*

The characters were varied and the situations unusual enough to capture my interest. Developments kept me guessing as to what was really going on, and then bam! Things started happening and began to fall into place. Tom Mullen writes with great feel for the individual people and their unique feelings and stories. The characters are fully formed and human in their responses to what's happening. There are many events and situations that made me think about current social and political issues in new and surprising ways. There is enough meat here that I know I will enjoy a second and third reading. Each of Tom's books are very different from one another, but the good and thoughtful writing here is also apparent in his first two books, The Last Town On Earth, and The Many Deaths Of The Firefly Brothers.The RevisionistsThe Last Town on Earth: A NovelThe Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers: A Novel
  

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