The Pocket Watch - Flynn, Bill
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Recently hired cash register salesman, Bill Malloy, is assigned to a territory in Vermont in 1977. He registers in a hotel at White River Juction where his father had stayed in 1950 before he was killed in the Korean War. Malloy was born after the death of his dad and has always wanted to know more about him. The amiable desk clerk at the Cooledge Hotel takes him to the cellar where he views his father's registration signature. But, that's not all. There's a note in the registration book that the guest left his pocket watch behind when he checked out.The watch is recovered in 'lost & found'…mehr

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Recently hired cash register salesman, Bill Malloy, is assigned to a territory in Vermont in 1977. He registers in a hotel at White River Juction where his father had stayed in 1950 before he was killed in the Korean War. Malloy was born after the death of his dad and has always wanted to know more about him. The amiable desk clerk at the Cooledge Hotel takes him to the cellar where he views his father's registration signature. But, that's not all. There's a note in the registration book that the guest left his pocket watch behind when he checked out.The watch is recovered in 'lost & found' and given to Malloy. Later, when in his room after falling asleep, the pocket watch starts running backwards until it reaches July 19th 1950 the same day his father was a guest at the hotel. Malloy awakens and then the drama unfolds at the speed of light.
Autorenporträt
BILL FLYNN IS A RETIRED AEROSPACE ENGINEER WHO LIVES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. BILL'S FOLLOW ON CAREER WAS DEVOTED TO GOLF PRODUCT EXPORTING. BOTH CAREERS TOOK HIM TO EUROPE WHERE HIS SECOND NOVEL, THE FEATHERY, A GOLF MYSTERY IS SET. HIS OTHER NOVELS ARE; A DRUMBEAT TOO NEAR AND THE BEDDINGTON INCIDENT...WORKS OF HISTORICAL FICTION, SET DURING WW ll. THEN HE WROTE, THE POCKET WATCH, A SAGA IN THE SCI-FI GENRE THAT TAKES THE READER INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONE. BILL'S HOBBY IS GOLF AND HE'S PLAYED IT IMPERFECTLY ON SOME OF THE MOST PERFECT COURSES ON THIS PLANET.