Timeless: Book I

M.R.M. Parrott's tenth book is the 2003 first novel of Timeless. Book I is about Major Milona Devon, a UN Reconnaissance Special Force operative who is beside herself with a temporal problem. A trilogy of future spies, technology, and conspiracy, the novels of Timeless are thriller and suspense stories with a backdrop of science fiction. Each novel follows one of the main characters in a trio of closely interconnected narratives in which ethical dilemmas, technical conundrums, and political forces all threaten global stability in ways mirroring our own times.

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In Book I, the story centers on Milona Devon, who must travel through time to the distant past to investigate a professor, Peter Nexin. Her mission becomes much more difficult after she realizes she is falling for him. But the story also introduces a view of how our distant future might look, neither utopian nor distopian, with a world government and single global military force in a reborn United Nations and NATO. The use of time travel is also presented as much as a problem as a boon, including treatment of the “grandfather paradox”, and hints of extraterrestrial interest.

About the Trilogy: On the surface, there is a love story involving an alluring agent, a story of action, spies and murder, and a government desperate to save the world from destruction. Underneath, duty is rooted in an ethical dilemma, whereby one must weigh the sacrifice of one for the many. Involved is a complex journey of discovery, and tensions between career, friends and family.