Andrew Harrington wants to kill himself. He hates his father, his family. He misses the love of his life, Marie Kelly, a prostitute, who was brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. He hates everything. Life has no meaning for him. That is, until he heard of Gilliam Murray and his magic time gateway. The Map of Time By Felix J. Palma Atria Books June 2011 Harrington and his cousin travel to see Gilliam about a ride back in time to save Marie only to find that Gilliam cannot change the destination of the magic portal. It is stuck in time at the final battle between Solomon, the king of the automatons, and Captain Shackleton, the savior of mankind in the year 2000. Not to be dissuaded, Harrington turns to another source for time travel, H. G. Wells himself, to see what parts of the Time Machine were real and which were false. Wells, for his part, is working on his next novel and doesn’t have time to help Harrington until a gun is pulled. Then things get interesting. Without giving this magnificent adventure away, the resolution to Harrington’s quest to save Marie Kelly is only part one of a three part story that is so grand in scope that it’s tough to believe that everything (and everyone) fits into one 600 page work. Wells and the Ripper join other real characters from Victorian London, including the Elephant Man, and authors Henry James and Brom Stoker. Time Travel, magic, Scotland Yard, murders and other crimes are the setting for a book about love and how time affects all things and how time can be affected by all things. This book is an almost perfect fiction! It lacks not character, or love, or adventure, or ideas or setting. In all the books I've read for the last several years, this one stayed with me the longest. In my opinion, the best book of 2011 bar none! The Map of Time is an experience that all readers should enjoy – and soon. It’s unforgettable and worthy. A masterpiece!