Book Description

Ernie Ruhsala is a veteran 'Continuity Officer' employed by a late 21st-century post-apocalyptic cabal of investors and operatives who have exploited a 'holy technology' which enables them to travel back in time by hacking their own past lives. This Institute of Temporality are looking for loopholes and lacunae in the historical record that will allow them to rob the past blind. Treasure hunting in time can be very lucrative--as long as continuity is ostensibly preserved. That's where Ernie comes in. Aided by his psychic gifts, he knows how to read between the lines of world history and make sure no Institute operatives compromise it. Bankrolling the future with loot laundered through the centuries, the Institute of Temporality intend to finance the rebirth of civilization. But everything goes awry when their plans to use clones as agents in time backfires and they realize they've inadvertently trained up a terrorist army, who are bent on seriously threatening the timeline and, thus, erasing their own future. Inhabiting a series of unlikely past lives, Ernie chases the notorious protean terrorist mastermind, # 13, through the ages--from Norse Greenland to Renaissance Italy; from the Fertile Crescent to the Inca Empire. Along the way, he joins the Seventh Crusade,advises Julian the Apostate, and has chance encounters with Baby Jesus and Adolf Hitler--just to name a few. It's all in a day's work for Officer Ernie Ruhsala, but, over the demanding course of his commando counter-terrorist career, he will be forced to question everything he's always taken for granted--about history, about God, about the nature of time, and, ultimately, about his own employers and their agenda for the future of the species. 'Continuity Guy', a fast-paced, action-packed, comic novel, is the story of one man (inhabiting many different incarnations!) on a quest for the truth.