Professor Edward Johnston's Review: Summary

Professor Edward Johnston

Professor Edward Johnston, while having little appearance in the plot, served a central role in the plot of the book. The Professor was the leader of an archeology team in Dordogne, France, until he grows suspicious of their benefactor and large technology corporation, ITC. He visits their headquarters in Black Rock, Nevada, and upon discovery of their futuristic developments in quantum technology is sent back to Dordogne in the year 1357. He is swiftly seized by local inhabitants, and the plot revolves around his team's quest to retrieve him. A well liked, mild, and middle aged man, Professor Johnston is intelligent, level-headed, and inspirational to those around him. In the present, he is a college professor and excavation and reconstruction leader at the Dordogne archeology site. In the past he is the Magister, a man with arcane knowledge of gunpowder and hidden passages that is sought about by many.

Robert Doniger

Robert Doniger similarly contributes little to dialogue, but is a pivotal figure as

Post-time-warp, Hughes was foolishly and hopelessly in love with a girl who had no such feelings for him. Relatively stuck up, Hughes was a vain and impulsive young man. Within mere minutes of his arrival, he got separated from his group. He and a young boy (who actually turned out to be a lady and also temporary love interest for Hughes) were chased through dense woods by a violent group of knights. Clumsy Chris acquires enough scrapes and bruises to last a whole lifetime just in that chase, but to add on top of that he accidentally accepts a challenge to joust the lord of the land. It’s only thanks to Marek's guidance that he survives the duel. Though he learned the hard way, Hughes grows to be strong willed and valiant, even managing to earn the love of his companion, Kate Erickson. The most dynamic of characters, Hughes learns to find strength in pain, and comes out on top of the cruelest of