Time Travel: It's not for everyone!

Imagine a world where everyone has access to a time machine. Think about that for a minute. Do you really trust your crazy neighbor, you know, the one who talks to her dog with time travel? Don’t get me wrong it doesn’t make you crazy because you talk to your pet. But if you think the pet talks back… “Houston we have a problem!”

Will Compton a character in my book and for lack of a better description he is a time cop.  When the story opens he is on the trail of a man who has time jumped to the past because he wants to have a gunfight with movie actor John Wayne.

“A Storm in Memphis”Chapter OneIt was close to midnight and so far I had managed only a glimpse of the man I was hunting. I called out to him.
“Why in the world would you want to kill John Wayne?”
His reply was immediate.
“I don’t want to kill him, I want to challenge him to a gunfight.”
“You realize that John Wayne is an actor, right? You know he is not a real gunfighter… right?”
He didn’t reply right away and when he did his tone seemed both confused and frustrated.
“What are you talking about?”
That was when it hit me, this guy was nuts! How in the hell did he get his hands on a time machine?
I looked up and noticed a full moon. That explained a lot! The crazies are always at their worst when the moon was full.
“John Wayne is an actor,” I repeated.
“What do you mean he’s an actor? I just saw him in a documentary about the Wild West, he’s a gunfighter.”
“I don’t know what you saw, but it had to be a movie. It was fake. It wasn’t a documentary. Look around, does this look like the Wild West to you?”
Silence… except for the crickets. Then I saw his head pop up as he looked around. I guess the presence of cars, not horses, wasn’t a big enough clue.
(…) We were in the hills somewhere near Bel Air, California in the midst of multi-million dollar homes with sculpted hedges and manicured lawns. According to my computer, John Wayne had been a movie actor from about 1950 until around 1970… something like 500 years before I was born. Right now he was inside a friend’s mansion attending a “wrap party” for one of his movies. He had no idea that this nincompoop was hiding behind the cars out front, waiting for him to come out so that he could challenge him to a gunfight.
If you would like to read more, there is an excerpt posted at: 
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
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