The Alone Man
Profile
- Author
- Richard A. Sand
- Genre
- Speculative fiction
- Word Count
- 75,000
- Pages
- 300
- Pitch
- In 1952 Korea, a wounded man claims to be an engineer from the future. Haunted by the truth he carries and protected by one nurse who believes him, he must decide whether to survive in the past or try to change the history he already knows.
Wait.
Who am I?
I’m David Kahn.
Dr. David Kahn.
In 1952 Korea, a wounded man with no ID and no memory wakes in a U.S. Army field hospital, claiming to be Dr. David Kahn, an engineer from the twenty-first century. His knowledge of future events and technology is precise. The doctors call it amnesia. The army calls him a spy. But his nurse, Lt. Kathleen “Kate” Tiggs, is willing to listen. And Corporal Ray Teller, a fellow patient, is willing to trust him.
Haunted by what he left behind and hunted for what he knows, David faces a terrible choice: stay silent and be erased, or speak the truth and alter the course of history, potentially erasing himself and his own daughter. David must decide whether to run, try to find a way home, or save a future that has not yet happened.
As David struggles hold onto his own identity, his impossible knowledge of moon landings, DNA, and atomic weapons begins to shift belief into fear.
What is the geometry of fate?
The Alone Man is an upmarket speculative work about choice, consequence, and the inexorable weight of what’s to come.