TWIST OF TIME
by Gy Waldron
February 10 - March 7, 2025 Virtual Book Tour
Synopsis:
A fast-paced thriller by Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter, producer, and director Gy Waldron
Detective Sgt. Kate Flynn of the Santa Barbara Police Department is called in to investigate a gruesome decapitation and homicide. Her first clue comes from a most unlikely source: an Anglican monk and Celtic studies expert.
Brother Thomas has been expecting the hand-delivery of a priceless diary of a fourteenth-century Templar Knight, but instead he finds the messenger has been murdered.
Kate and Thomas are pulled deep into a centuries-old mystery with roots in medieval Europe and branches that lead to government intelligence, the Vatican, and a top-secret private lab where untold powers were being alchemized that could alter the face of humanity forever.
It's a race against evil to uncover a plot that could lead them to centuries-old treasure-or to their own demise at the hands of a deranged tech billionaire who has nothing to lose.
With parallel quests for the truth taking place centuries apart, and a touch of mysticism, readers will be taken on a suspenseful journey with one twist after another in Twist of Time, an electrifying novel of intrigue and history.
Readers of thrillers and novels of suspense by Dan Brown, Ken Follett, David Baldacci will savor every surprise in screenwriter Gy Waldron's fiction debut.
Book Details:
Genre: Thriller
Published by: First Fruits Publishing
Publication Date: August 20, 2024
Number of Pages: 336
ISBN: 9798869378163
Book Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | BookShop.org | Goodreads
Author Bio:
Gy Waldron is an Emmy Award-nominated screenwriter, producer, and director who has written chart-topping television sitcoms, dramas, miniseries, and movies. He has created three network series, including The Dukes of Hazzard, and is known for the action-comedy film Moonrunners, which he wrote and directed.He started his writing career in Hollywood working as a staff writer for legendary producer Norman Lear on hit shows such as One Day at a Time. After an eight-year run with The Dukes of Hazzard, he segued into true crime limited series. He received an Emmy Award nomination for the six-hour limited series Billionaire Boys Club, and wrote other projects, including The Menendez Brothers, Brotherhood of the Rose, Innocent Victims, and The Unabomber.His creative work for theater received an American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) Award.In 2024, Gy Waldron received a Grady Fellowship from his alma mater, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia. Whether writing for screen, for the stage, or for readers around the world, Waldron is widely known for his unique blend of action, comedy, and suspense, always leaving audiences highly entertained.With a background of serving in U.S. counterintelligence in Europe, Gy (a.k.a. Gyneth) has written about the fields of intelligence and crime. Stationed in Germany in the late 1950s, he was on the KGB desk working with captured Gestapo files and monitoring CIC (Counter Intelligence Corps) operations against various Communist intelligence services during the Cold War. Additionally, he worked with American operatives in executing orders from U.S. Command.He draws heavily on his experiences when writing fiction. Prior to his career in Hollywood, Gy worked in broadcast television at WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he was a director of specials, sports, and documentaries. Gy worked on many civil rights documentaries and directed feeds to NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report that focused on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his associates.A native Southerner, he now lives in Malibu, California, in a canyon between the mountains and the ocean where he is writing his next novel, Fugue.
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Review:
Twist of Time by Gy Waldron is an intriguing story featuring the legends of the Knights Templar, a mysterious, ancient diary, and a gruesome modern-day murder. Its fast-paced action quickly captured my imagination, and its compelling storyline kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end.
The story cleverly unfolds from multiple points of view along two separate timelines. In the present, Detective Kate Flynn, a third-generation cop, investigates the horrendous murder of a woman whose headless, handless torso is discovered by hikers on one of the city’s more remote trails. Learning the victim was the courier hired by a multimillionaire med-tech genius to courier an ancient diary to a local monastery for translation, she initially enlists the assistance of Brother Thomas, the monk-translator, to help her solve her case. The story quickly shifts into high gear when they realize the significance of the missing diary and the danger it brings to all who get involved with it. The threat becomes all too apparent, with no fewer than three different organizations vying to grab the diary and the translator for themselves.
The historical timeline follows Templar Knight Brother Brychen Houston, tasked with safeguarding the orders’ secrets as the French king and Pope conspire to take the Templar’s wealth, property, and mystic knowledge held within a mysterious trunk bearing the label “Veritas.” As he and his companions flee their pursuers, lose the trunk and regain it, and fight their way through France, Brychen records their story along with information regarding the Templars’ secrets in a diary. The author incorporates the history of the Knights Templar, their beliefs, and daily routines into the larger story, which is fascinating to read. Brother Brychen is the epitome of the conflicted hero as he struggles to fulfill his mission and forgive himself for his methods and his past.
The plot has a couple of distinctive twists that had me gasping, including a paranormal element featuring psychics. The descriptive settings are vivid and far-flung, and readers are in for some good armchair traveling.
I recommend TWIST OF TIME to readers of historical mysteries,
historical fiction, and thrillers, especially to those who enjoy stories of the
Knights Templar.
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Woohoo, fantastic review! This sounds very interesting!
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