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Time to Live

(Nick Of Time #5)

John Gilstrap (Goodreads Author)

4.03 · Rating details · 143 ratings · 10 reviews

Fasten Your Seatbelts

In the explosive conclusion of John Gilstrap's five-part novel, the high-speed pursuit of two fugitive lovers kicks into overdrive--on the ultimate collison course with destiny . . .

Nick Of Time
Part 5: Time to Live

After plotting their escape, evading the police, and witnessing a murder, Nicki and Brad have reached the end of the line--and there's nowh ...more

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Published May 24th 2016 by Lyrical Underground

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Mar 29, 2016 Petra rated it it was amazing

Shelves: series, thriller, netgalley

This was the fifth and final part in the Nick of Time series and what an explosive finale it was!
17-year-old Nicki who needs a life-saving transplant has given up on medical treatment and is on the run with her childhood crush, escaped convict Brad. Her father, Carter, a prosecutor, has teamed up with deputy sheriff Darla Sweet to prove that Nicki and Brad are not the killers the state police believe them to be. But it looks as if Nicki and Brad have reached the end of the road. Stuck in a house ...more

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Mar 15, 2016 Carrie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: netgalley

Time to Live is the fifth and last installment of a five part book series by author John Gilstrap. Seventeen year old Nicki Janssen had overcome an eating disorder only to then lose her mother to cancer. While grieving for her mother Nicki had resumed her obsession with weight loss and had turned to diet pills. The pills however had side effects ending up putting Nicki in the hospital herself and without a heart and lungs transplant she finds herself with only a year left to live.

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Nov 11, 2017 Dawn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Fantastic suspense

NIcky had only months to live so she ran away from the hospital to really live her last few months. Brad met her and their adventures began. He was an escapee from prison....

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Aug 13, 2020 James rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A fitting ending to 5 short stories.

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May 30, 2019 Lee W Grossbard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Heart warming

A great story about love and tragedy. Fast paced with great sub plots and very interesting characters who live and grow.

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May 29, 2017 Kathy Govreau rated it really liked it

This whole series was very suspenseful. I was surprised by the ending. I certainly was not disappointed.

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Mar 19, 2016 Kyle Robertson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kindle

The final installment in this series picks up where the previous one left off and takes off in dramatic fashion as Nicki's dad believes he has solved the murder. He needs definitive proof to make sure Nicki can go free and clear. Meanwhile, Nicki and Brad are literally at a dead end. Nicki's health is deteriorating and Brad is stumped on what their next move should be, even as the cops are moving in on them. As Deputy Sweet catches up with Nicki's Damon his quest for the truth, a dramatic scene ...more

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Feb 29, 2016 Lynn Mccarthy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reviewed-for-netgalley

What a great ending to this series.
Just love this Author.
After evading the police for so long Nicki and Brad are at the end of the line.
Did Not end as I expected in fact it was a happy but very sad ending for some I felt quite sad about what happened.

Thank you Netgalley the Author and Publisher for a chance to read this book

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Jun 16, 2016 Joe rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Awesome read

I've read all of John Gilstraps books and loved every one of them... He's an amazing writer... I particularly love his Jonathan Grave series and look forward to the Noel one... I give all his book, 5 stars..... ...more

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Jun 11, 2016 Linda Gordon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Nick of Time

This five book series was great. I love the way John Gilstrap's books are always more than one story. He draws you in from the start and keeps you in until the end. I would recommend these books to anyone who likes a well written and captivating book. ...more

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A little bit about my background... I've always been a closet-writer. As a kid, I lived for the opportunity to write short stories. I was the editor of my high school newspaper for a while (the Valor Dictus, Robinson High School, class of 1975), until I quit ("You can't fire me! I quit!") over a lofty First Amendment issue that seemed very important at the time. My goal, in fact, was to become a j A little bit about my background... I've always been a closet-writer. As a kid, I lived for the opportunity to write short stories. I was the editor of my high school newspaper for a while (the Valor Dictus, Robinson High School, class of 1975), until I quit ("You can't fire me! I quit!") over a lofty First Amendment issue that seemed very important at the time. My goal, in fact, was to become a journalist in the vein of Woodward or Bernstein. Okay, I confess, I wanted to be Woodward; Robert Redford played him in the movie, and chicks really dug Robert Redford.

I graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1979, and armed with a degree in American history, I couldn't find a job. I ended up settling for a position with a little-noticed trade journal serving the construction industry. They called me the managing editor and they paid me food stamp wages. I hated it. About this time, I joined the Burke Volunteer Fire Department in Fairfax County, Virginia, if only to find relief from the boredom of my job. Running about a thousand calls my first year with the department, I was hooked, and the volunteer fire service became an important part of my life for the next 15 years. In the early eighties, hating my job, I went the way of all frustrated liberal arts undergrads—back to graduate school. Earning a Master of Science degree in safety engineering from the University of Southern California, I started down a whole new road. For the next decade and a half, I became an expert (don't you hate that word?) on explosives safety and hazardous waste. Meanwhile, I kept writing. I didn't tell anyone, of course, because, well, you just don't share artistic dreams with fellow engineers. They look at you funny.

My first novel, Nathan's Run, was in fact my fourth novel, and when it sold, it sold big. At a time in my life when things were going well—I was president of my own consulting firm—things were suddenly going very well. Warner Bros. bought the movie rights to Nathan's Run two days after the first book rights were sold, and as of this date, the novel has been translated and published in one form or another in over 20 countries. With Nathan's Run in the can, as it were, I thought I might finally be on to something, but I didn't quit my "day job" until after I sold the book and movie rights to my second novel, At All Costs. I figured that while one-in-a-row might be luck, two-in-a-row was a trend. So, I started writing full-time.

More novels followed, and then a few screenplays. I was living the dream.

But I really didn't like it much. I learned pretty quickly that when you're born a Type-A personality, those extrovert tendencies don't go away just because you're practicing a craft you love. In fact, after just a couple of years of dream fulfillment, I was pretty friggin' bored with the company of my imaginary friends, so I did something that I've never heard a full-time artist do before: I went back to a day job. At first, it was just a matter of reactivating my consulting business, but then, in 2004, I was handed my ideal Big-Boy Job (that's what my wife calls it) working as the director of safety for a trade association in Washington, DC.

And I continue to write. In 2006, Six Minutes to Freedom was published to considerable acclaim. My first (and probably last) foray into book-length non-fiction, SixMin tells the story of Kurt Muse, the only civilian of record ever rescued by the super-secret Delta Force. Thanks to Kurt's cooperation (he is co-author), I gained access to people and places that lifelong civilians like me should never see. The heroic warriors I met during that research turned out to be nothing like their movie stereotypes. These were not only gentlemen, but gentle men, who remained free of the kind of boasting and self-aggrandizement that I was expecting. They were supreme professionals, and very nice guys.

And through them I got the idea for my new series character, Jonathan Grave. He's fo ...more