Killing Time (Caleb Carr novel)

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Killing Time is a dystopian novel by Caleb Carr set in the Mid-21st Century. It was first published in 2000 by Random House. It includes criticisms of the information age (see quotes below). The book was a departure for Carr, whose previous two novels (and his subsequent one) were crime thrillers set in the Victorian era.

[edit] Characters

Dr. Gideon Wolfe- The protagonist, a renowned expert in psychological profiling.

[edit] Quotes

  • "It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge."
  • I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. -- Patrick Henry, 1775