About Shift:
A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if.
Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being given a massive dose of LSD, Chandler develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler’s heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassinate President Kennedy.
Propelled to prevent the conspiracy of assassination and anarchy, Chandler becomes a target for deadly forces in and out of the government and is pursued across a simmering landscape peopled by rogue CIA agents, Cuban killers, Mafia madmen, and ex-Nazi scientists…all the while haunted by a beautiful woman with her own scandalous past to purge, her own score to settle. Chased across America, will Chandler be able to harness his “shift” and rewrite history?
Combining the nonstop style of Ludlum with the sinister, tangled conspiracies of DeLillo and Dick, and featuring cameos from Lee Harvey Oswald to Timothy Leary to J. Edgar Hoover, Shift is a thriller guaranteed to be equal parts heart-stopping and thought-provoking.
About the Author:
Tim Kring is one of the creative community's original transmedia storytellers, who successfully works across entertainment and information mediums, including viewing screens and delivery devices such as film, TV, broadband, computers, mobile devices and the printed page to engage audiences around the world in narrative and immersive story arcs.
From 2001 to 2010, Kring’s key role in the entertainment industry was as creator and executive producer of Crossing Jordan and Heroes, NBC’s Emmy®-nominated epic saga that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. During his work on “Heroes”, Kring connected with both traditional TV and cross-media viewers who watched and followed the “Heroes” characters and plotlines across broadcast TV, cable, online/broadband and mobile devices. Kring was the first in the television industry to create and offer significant interactive online programming to both engage and build a fan base of an estimated 76 million people around the world during the Fall, Spring as well as traditional Summer re-run season.
Current projects include Kring’s first book, Shift part of a trilogy entitled The Gate of Orpheus co-written with New York author Dale Peck.
