Regression Man: A Time Travel Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798244079838)

Cook lived where gods were at play.

Handcuffed to his own timeline, Cook moves through a world no one else can see properly.

To everyone around him, time drives forward into pressure, damage, age, and death. But in Cook's direction, the same world is doing the opposite. Pressure lifts. Broken things return to wholeness. Ruin recedes. Life moves not toward death, but toward birth-which, in the end, may be the same door seen from the other side.

At the bar where he works, last call comes first, empty glasses fill, and words fall back into waiting mouths. His regulars-Frank, Edna, and the quietly steady One-Eyed Steve-do not grow older. They grow lighter. Simpler. Less burdened by what the world had become before it reached them.

Cook has learned to touch as little as possible. In a universe that mends itself, he can never know what he caused, what he prevented, or what was always going to heal without him. Accountability dissolves. Certainty vanishes. He is not the author of what he sees. Only its witness.

Beyond the bar, history itself begins to uncoil. A hijacking rises into legend. The man the world will call D.B. Cooper moves not toward disappearance, but toward revelation. Other shadows drift at the edge of events-coded messages, half-seen patterns, names feared by a world that only thinks it understands time.

Cook sees the split no one else can see: the very same moment dividing in two. In one direction, decay. In the other, repair. Wicked and perfectly beautiful at once.

Perfection.

Regression Man is a haunting anti-time novel of memory, mystery, and spiritual unease-where history heals in reverse, truth retreats as it appears, and one man lives in the hidden current where ruin becomes innocence again.

What if the world is not dying, but dividing?
What if loss is only the forward face of repair?
And Cook is stranded in the one direction of time where the damage is always being undone?