In the year 2075, Jamal received an offer for a new job. He is a mechanic, but not in the traditional sense: he masters deception and enforcement; he is a hitman, as they used to call people in his line of business. Jamal’s assignments are mostly evidence retrieval and occasionally dirtier tasks. A top-secret organization has hired Jamal for this new job. They have paid in advance, and the amount is so generous that he could not refuse to consider the job; this could pay off his way out of this unkind life. The contract, though, was particular: he had to sabotage the career of an up-and-coming actor and comedian, Joe Jenkins, who lived seventy-three years ago. Jamal must fulfill the contract in the year 2002. The task at hand is called “reverse causality enforcement,” and its implications are far-reaching and unknown, especially for him. Indeed, this might be his final job, but for reasons he is not aware of yet.
“The cause is hidden, but the result is widely known.”
--Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book IV.
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
-- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time.
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