Mark Timlin is a British author best known for his series of novels featuring Nick Sharman, a former Metropolitan Police officer who takes up the profession of private investigator in South London. He is also a renowned book reviewer and literary commentator. His most recent work is REAP THE WHIRLWIND. In his early years he did various jobs including work as a member of the road crew for THE WHO, including working backstage at Woodstock in the 1960s on the lighting cranes
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Here’s one you’re going to love. Or not. Depends how green you are. Me? I’m a born again tree hugger living in a meadow in Wales and helping poor donkeys (and other animals) to live a happy life. Does that answer your question?
The paradox that drives this novel is, how do you handle a bloke who wants to save the world by blowing up and killing innocent people, when you secretly admire what he’s doing? That’s the question that Tom Smith, FBI profiler must answer.
The Green Man, as he is known, is an eco-terrorist, or an environmental activist as he describes himself in a manifesto he sends to the feds. Which description fits, depends once again on your point of view. He has struck six times at various soft domestic targets, destroying them in various ways and killed a lot of people as he went. Collateral damage, or a necessary evil on the road to changing the world. Maybe both.
But don’t quote fucking ‘Imagine’ to me as some kind of apology for the mayhem. Written by a multi-millionaire who had a whole apartment in his block of flats set aside for his and his missus’ s fur coats. Bollocks to that!
The first question that comes to mind when reading Out of Time is, are there too many expository bits. I’m not sure, but I do think if you pick up this book you’ll surely know something of carbon dioxide levels, fracking, and other dangers to the environment,
The next question is, is it preachy? Depends again how green you are. Maybe a bit on the preachy side, but the subject is worth preaching about. Otherwise it’s fast moving thriller that speeds by page after page.
Finally, the last question must be, are we? Out of time that is. Whatever the answer to that is, I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and can’t wait for the film. I’m sure it’ll be along soon.
