Dmitri
"It all started innocently during a hypnosis demonstration in a college psychology class. Before it ended, not only was the life of the subject in mortal danger, but the entire course of human history--past, present, and future--was at a critical crossroad. John Greene, a college senior, volunteered for an experiment in age regression. Going under, he was told that he would awaken as a nine-year-old. Suddenly his figure seemed illuminated, bathed in a hazy golden light. And when he spoke, his words were unintelligible. His language was archaic Russian. Asked, in Russian, for his name, he responded, 'Dmitri.' Dmitri was no ordinary youngster. Under further questioning he revealed that he was living in the year 1591--and was the son of Ivan the Terrible, the ruler whose bloodthirsty reign catapulted him into the annals of infamy. The only one who could communicate with Dmitri was Marina Kuryev, a first-year graduate student and John's lover. Her fluency in Russian was her ticket through the turnstiles of history...A ticket to a past so besotted with evil and malice, so rank with a festered malfeasance of power, that the journey would haunt her for the rest of her life. Historical research revealed that Dmitri was murdered just before his tenth birthday in a bloody struggle for succession. And if Dmitri, as embodied in John's mind, perishes, can John survive? Meanwhile, the doomsday clock is ticking and only five days remain before Dmitri's execution date. More than John's life is at stake in a desperate battle that mounts to a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Highly imaginative, yet acutely realistic, this is a truly spellbinding novel, as rich in historical detail as it is scientifically valid, as provocative as it is suspenseful"--Dust jacket
Print Book, English, ©1980
Seaview Books, New York, ©1980