Forward to Camelot [Paperback]

Susan Sloate (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 12, 2003

WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED? History can be altered & ... On November 22, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, his personal Bible was used to swear in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One. Immediately afterwards, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price. Cady Cuyler, a soap-opera actress in the year 2000, is commissioned to hunt for this Bible - and at the same time find answers to a tantalizing mystery in her own past by traveling back to Dallas of 1963. What she learns there leads to a far more perilous mission: She must somehow save JFK from assassination, with the help of only one ally: A courageous ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald. FORWARD TO CAMELOT is the story of a time-travel mission that changes history. In these pages live a gallant president and a young patriot who risks his life to save his Commander-in-Chief. It is a rare opportunity to re-visit an era that once was, and dream of an America that might have been.

Editorial Reviews

Review

" ... forces its readers to think `outside the box' ... And the box may never look the same." -- Walt Brown, author, THE PEOPLE vs. LEE HARVEY OSWALD --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

SUSAN SLOATE has published eleven young-adult books, including three biographies and a baseball book, and novels about white water rafting, Olympic dress age and jockey school. She has optioned two screen works, written an informational script for McGraw-Hill Films, and did sports reporting from Dodger Stadium. While researching this book, she met her husband at a JFK assassination symposium in Chicago. In 1994, she wrote & directed a one-act play, which premiered in Oak Park, Illinois. She now lives outside Charleston, South Carolina. KEVIN FINN began writing as a sports and news writer-producer for a New York cable television outlet, and has worked as a script reader/analyst for the prestigious American Film Institute. FORWARD TO CAMELOT is his first novel. He lives in New Jersey.

Product Details

• Paperback: 488 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (November 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1414014880
• ISBN-13: 978-1414014883
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,037,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Co-author of FORWARD TO CAMELOT, 2003 alternative-history novel from Authorhouse (finalist in 2004 IPPY Awards, finalist in 2004 Arizona Authors Assn. Literary Competition). #6 Amazon bestseller in Sci-Fi/Fantasy, optioned in 2005 by Fast Carrier Pictures for film. (Currently available.) Semi-finalist in the 2008 and 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contests with STEALING FIRE (info and excerpt appear on my website and at www.abnabooks.com). Also author of 16 published young-adult books (fiction and non-fiction, sports, biography, romance, etc), which includes Silver Medal/2007 Moonbeam Awards, for RAY CHARLES: FIND ANOTHER WAY! from Bearport Publishing. MYSTERIES UNWRAPPED: THE SECRETS OF ALCATRAZ (2008, Sterling Publisher) led to author appearance on MYSTERY QUEST: ALCATRAZ, a special for The History Channel, summer 2009. Playwright (two produced plays), screenwriter (2 screen properties optioned), sportswriter (major-league baseball and power volleyball). Founded and chaired The East Cooper Authors Festival in May 2007, a program that brought together published authors with students from primary schools through high school outside Charleston, South Carolina in programs designed to excite young readers. Inaugural program reached more than 11,000 students in one day.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting look at what was and what might have been., August 1, 2004

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DMCWriter (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forward to Camelot (Paperback)

I'm a history buff -- but a JFK buff, too. I approached reading this book with the knowledge that it is fiction, yet the REAL LIFE characters living and breathing in these pages made me constantly pinch myself to pull me back into reality. And the reality is that we still ask the questions "who killed JFK?" and "what would the world have been like had he survived?" This book goes beyond answering those questions. It brings to life people we never got to know, takes us into the world of 1963 Dallas and leads us through one heart-stopping adventure right after another as Cady and Lee work together, in an unlikely pairing of heroes, to keep President Kennedy safe. I noticed the plot deals with three of the conspiracy theories in circulation, that it explores the (strong) possibility of Oswald's innocence and that it gives us what we never got to have: A real look at a living, breathing President John F. Kennedy after November 22 -- and beyond.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time Travel History Lesson Winning Combo, April 24, 2004

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Kelly Fowler (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forward to Camelot (Paperback)

This book had the right combination of awesome time travel adventure teamed up with a topic that is surrounded by so many questions you can't help but keep on reading. I loved the strong main female character who does not realize her own potential until she is in the thick of things. I loved the confidence the male characters had in her ability to be who she was and take care of business. The time travel circle of events was incredible and well thought out. This would make a great movie!! I went out right away and rented JFK again just to complete the learning experience. I am now interested in watching 13 Days again. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a great time travel history lesson.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!, October 18, 2009

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Michael Frank (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forward to Camelot (Hardcover)

I'm not usually one who enjoys fiction, but this book grabbed me based on the subject, and the rare use of JFK in a science fiction.

I'll just say this was a real page-turner, a quick read because it was so historically accurate & detailed along with being incredibly exciting as to the fictional plot.

Best book I've read out of the 50 or so that I have read over the last 12 months. Not giving away any plot details here, only recommending that you should definitely get this. It will be one that you will revisit repeatedly, AFTER the first complete read, late at night. I've read it twice through and am not finished!