Apocrypha

English scientist Damon Carter-Brown has developed a time travel machine for an American research foundation. While away in Washington discussing funding for the project's development, his wife is raped and murdered by Tibor Varkas, a research scientist who has escaped from jail, where he was serving time for fraud against Damon's foundation.Varkas discovers that while he was in jail, Damon had made a breakthrough on his invention. Realising that his best chance to evade capture is to use the untried time machine, he projects himself forward in time.Damon and his brother-in-law Quintino decide to follow, even though the machine has not been developed sufficiently to allow for a return. The time travelers find themselves catapulted into a post-apocalyptic nightmare peopled by vicious Sunsail pirates, Rastafarian Bob Marley worshipers, Chief Electricians and mutants. They also fall prey to subtle but snowballing changes in character brought about through the transference.Varkas, stunned to find that he will not be feted as the world's first time traveler, sets out on a lonely journey of discovery that will eventually lead him to God, and ultimately, to absolution.Apocrypha, an imaginative science fiction thriller, breaks all barriers.Peter Clayfield spent his early years in India and Canada. Officially retired, he runs a sports and social club in Manchester, England, and is working on several other novels.Publisher's Web site: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/Apocrypha.html