What a strange book. I honestly don't know if I liked it or I really liked it. Presented as a series of interview transcripts, the book tells the story of a world shaking discovery, and the use and abuse of that technology. 
 None of the characters were particularly well developed or likable but while that would normally be a huge flaw, in a book like this where the focus was on the process of discovering a timeline, it didn't take away too much from the narrative. The underlying plot, too, was silly, as were the "Man in Black" lead and the "magically informed stranger with a taste for Kung Pao chicken" but again the freshness of the storytelling hid many, many flaws. 
 I think if this had been written simply as a modern military thriller, I probably wouldn't have liked the book at all. As is, it captured my imagination and kept me reading from start to stop in just a few hours. 
 I'm in for the next book as well.