The Teleporter

By John Sommers Mannheimer

TIME reporter Jacob Esau expects to meet a monster when he books his flight to Fordham, North Dakota. Eight years before, in 2046, Jacob penned an article for the magazine that helped bring down the world's largest transportation company. As a result, the famous inventor of the Teleporter, Orrin Wright, was vanquished to the death row of Fordham maximum security prison. But inexplicably, Wright summons Jacob with a letter, to come to Fordham and write his biography. Halfway through the 21st century, Orrin Wright is the most reviled man on Earth. He is known worldwide as a genocidal maniac whose death-count lies somewhere north of 1 billion. And he accomplished that all from a desk in Silicon Valley. For a long time, Jacob assumed him to be a monster worthy of his reputation. But in Fordham, Jacob finds a tired, regretful man, haunted by his past misdeeds. The story begins in 2027, as three MIT students, Orrin Wright, Jeff Olznak and Mike Mendel, begin work on a project of Orrin's design: a genuine Teleportation Machine. An amazed professor inspecting the machine remarks: "Like something from science fiction." By 2042, the Teleporter eclipses the airplane as the premier mode of travel. Everybody teleports-across the ocean, across town. The three inventors experience unmeasured success--mansions, magazine covers-but their relationships strain as a result of Orrin's constant secrecy. Olznak and Mendel realize that they don't begin to understand the machine he helped create. Jonah Washington, a leader of the anti-technology movement, befriends a disillusioned Mendel, and picks his brain for Wright's secrets. Washington hires a private eye to follow Orrin Wright, and what he discovers changes the world forever. Jacob Esau's task is to tell the story of Orrin Wright's ascent and downfall; to represent the man behind an epic, disastrous scandal, and a bizarre two decades in human history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519621523
• ISBN13: 9781519621528
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"