Pendulum Author:Richard Lynch Sam is a supervisor with a knack for solving problems; Jane is a binge alcoholic raising her prodigious daughter Clare on her own; and Calvin is a rebel out to fight the system. These strangers are ripped from the streets of their city and awake in the middle of a feud between the murderous military and a band of anti-government guerillas. After... more » two days, the new friends are taken back home...almost...to find that nearly four years have passed. They soon determine the truth, that an incident far in the future has created a pendulum, one that crisscrosses time and space and draws ever nearer to the disaster that created it. Can four people stop the disaster before it kills tens of millions?« less