In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless: Season One, #1)

by Dean Koontz

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

Here we have the question of predestination or free will. If all time——past, present, and future——was present at the moment of the Big Bang, as many scientists tell us, then as T.S. Eliot put it, when “all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable.” I dealt with this conundrum my own way in my novel ELSEWHERE, but Nameless deals with it in a different way, by assuming that perhaps the story of the universe was, on the macro scale, complete at the moment of the Big Bang, but that on the micro scale free will works. Therefore I hope that the reader sees him as a man of considerable humility, who knows his limitations, but is nonetheless determined to succeed in his mission.