Losing his job, living under a false identity, loving two women at once, and dodging bullets are just some of the challenges that the physicist Dr. Warren Harding faces. Now, to save lives, he must risk his own and use the time travel theorem he developed to turn back the clock. But while he can navigate time in a snap, the resulting ripple effect spikes the danger and forever alters the destinies of Warren and those he loves most.
Warren Hardy is a brilliant yet selfish physicist whose discovery of the key to time travel makes him the target of his unscrupulous boss. Framed for the murder of his lab assistant, Warren must flee with the secret theorem and foil his boss’s schemes. While hiding in the Canadian Rockies with a false identity as a forest warden, Warren rescues the famous actress Sara King from an avalanche. Although he is engaged, and she is married to a philandering husband, Warren and Sara connect as soul mates.
When Warren is dragged back into the chaotic world from which he has hidden for three years, both Sara and Warren’s fiancée, Julie, are put at risk—and Warren must combine physics with action to dodge an ex-CIA hit man as well as his former boss’s minions. He receives mysterious help evading his adversaries from a frumpy old German physicist named Anna Drakaz. As a self-proclaimed “guardian of time travel,” she wants to save Warren so she can pass to him the mantle of guardian, a role of which she has grown weary after 150 years.
With mortality dogging him, morality troubling him, the CIA and rogue hit man hunting him, and the responsibility for the safety of mankind haunting him, Warren evolves to the realization that the solution is self-sacrifice.
Professional Reviews
High Concept Time-Travelling Thriller "Snap" by Mario Molinari is a brave and intelligent debut.
"Snap" by Mario Molinari is a brave and intelligent debut.
The story follows the complicated non-linear path of Dr. Warren and his female love interests. The author paces the story well, and imbues the characters with humanism and charm. Running the complicated gamut of a time-travelling book and all logical pitfalls the genre entails, the author does a great job at putting the story together and keeping everything sane and logical- this in itself is quite the feat! The prose is clean and precise, and the action points keep the plot moving nicely.
To the lovers of science fiction, the Jason Borne series, or The Butterfly Effect- this is one for you. I enjoyed the contemporary feel of the book, and was impressed by the style of the author and the fact that he wrote this innovative and imaginative book. Well done!
Engaging and fast paced!
Snap by Mario Molinari is a combination of time travel and thriller well rolled into one fast paced story. The main character finds himself in an ethical dilemma and in trying to right the potential wrongs by going back in time, he creates even more problems. That is not an unfamiliar premise, but the author manages to breathe some fresh air into the plot and creates engaging characters to keep the reader involved.
I love time travel novels but often the mechanics of moving around in time are too vague or even ignored because of the difficulty of coming up with something that sounds plausible. In this book, Molinari doesn't shirk from presenting a complicated view of how time travel could work, and he weaves a fast paced narrative around this. There are some interesting twists that I didn't see coming and the ending wraps the plot threads nicely.
There were a couple of places that didn't quite work for me, such as a scientist having the necessary credentials to get hired as a conservation officer, but I've yet to read a book that didn't have some stretching and in this case, it worked well enough that it didn't detract from my overall enjoyment.
I look forward to any future books this author writes and will be first in line to buy them.
Awesome!
For this book I have to lift my hat to the author for delivering such an interestingly awesome story. The main characters were perfectly developed and more importantly not overdone. With Mario's artistic writing skills this story was unlike any other in its category, hugely captivating with no sign of slowing down and a seamless story which felt as natural and realistic as possible. I totally enjoyed the book and I recommend it to anyone looking for a unique thriller.
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