A Spy in Time, Imraan Coovadia
A Spy in Time, Imraan Coovadia
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A Spy in Time

Author: Imraan Coovadia

Narrator: Korey Jackson

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Enver Eleven is twenty-five years old and ready for adventure.He’s the Agency’s newest recruit, eager to leap through his first gate into an unfamiliar time. In Enver’s home city of Johannesburg, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centuries. The people of Johannesburg were spared the ravages of the apocalypse because of the thousands of miles of mining tunnels running beneath it.The Agency’s thinking machines have set his first mission for Marrakesh, circa 1955. His handler is the tough and taciturn Shanumi Six.Their mission: prevent the apocalypse from happening again.But when a cabal of temporal chaos-bringers kidnaps Shanumi, Enver must strike out across the timeline’s hotspots―Rio de Janeiro 1967, Johannesburg 2271―on a mission to preserve our very existence. His journeys put him in the middle of a catastrophe which will force him to put his assumptions to the test in an atmosphere of conspiracy and intrigue.Award-winning novelist Imraan Coovadia (The Wedding, Tales of the Metric System) returns with this crackling Afrofuturistic tale of intrigue in which the course of human history hangs in the balance.

About Imraan Coovadia

Imraan Coovadia has become one of the most prominent and innovative writers in South Africa. He has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, The University of Johannesburg Prize, the M-Net Prize and has been shortlisted for the Ama-Boeke Prize (2003) and the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. He is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Cape Town and is a regular contributor to various newspapers, journals and magazines such as N+1, Agni, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Times of India, and South Africa’s The Mail and Guardian and Sunday Independent. His writing has been the focus of a 2016 special issue of the scholarly journal Current Writing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

A Spy in Time is a brilliant, thought provoking, engaging time tale spy saga by Imraan Coovadia that is a wholly original book that draws on afrofuturism and more cerebral spy fiction like Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess, and the best of John Le Carré. Enver Eleven is a new member of the Agency, a cov......more

Goodreads review by Molly

A Spy In Time is a sci-fi book like I've never read before. There are some huge ideas in this novel that will tickle the fancy of even the MOST literate time travel enthusiasts. I personally loved Imraan Coovadia's super fun technical details about his version of time travel which, in this novel, is......more

Goodreads review by Aqeelah

Sci-Fi is one of the most difficult genres to write and I commend Mr Imraan Coovadia for the brilliant writing and fresh fictionally scientific world-building which fuses spies, space, time travel and contemplative philosophy. Coovadia managed to create a plot that was both thrilling and interdimens......more

Goodreads review by John

Coovadia has a way with words, thoughts, time and concepts. This Electric Cool Aid Acid Test of a novel is a roller-coaster ride difficult to describe and more difficult still to put down.......more

Goodreads review by Mandisi

A good novel. Well written and conceptually heavy. Perhaps too much so, as it packs secret agencies, time travel, the multiverse, and mankind's barbaric racially inspired history into one book. The first person narrator holds it all together though, with the protagonist being as perplexed as the read......more