Hell was just Matt’s orientation. Purgatory is where he’ll need to do some real work.

Purgatory’s Best Shot Time Diving Book 2
by Craig Robertson

Short Blurb

Matthew Dunsratty is thirty-four years old, fifty pounds overweight, heavily medicated, and has spent the last twenty years locked inside a state hospital for the criminally insane — a place he may or may not belong in, depending on which version of his life you’re counting. He’s a time diver: through meditation, he can push his thoughts back into younger versions of himself and rewrite his history. He’s done it countless times. Each fix made things worse. Now, rotting in an institution with a sadistic guard, a drooling doctor who may be deceased, and a well-meaning night tech who wants something Matthew is not prepared to give, Matthew hatches a plan to manipulate his way off his medication — so he can dive back one more time and stop himself from ever ending up here. Purgatory’s Best Shot is Craig Robertson’s wickedly dark, brilliantly funny, and surprisingly moving story of a man who can’t stop trying to undo his life, even when every attempt proves the original wasn’t worth undoing.

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Product details

• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C9S5HHWQ
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Imagine-It Publishing
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2023
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8986810515
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.84 x 9 inches
• Book 2 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Time Diving
• Genre ‏ : ‎ Time travel fiction
• Title: Purgatory’s Best Shot Subtitle: Time Diving, Book 2 Author: Craig Robertson Series: Time Diving (Book 2 of 4) Genre: Science Fiction / Time Travel / Metaphysical Publisher: Imagine-It Publishing (El Dorado Hills, CA) First edition: 2023 Copyright: 2022 Craig Robertson Cover design: Alexandre — designbookcover.pt Editors: Michael R. Blanche · Beth Lynne · Forest Olivier Formatting: Drew Avera Language: English Title-page line: “Can Matthew ever make right what he did to the universe?”
• ISBNs:
• E-book: 979-8-9860769-9-7
• Paperback: 979-8-9868105-0-8
• Hardcover: 979-8-9868105-1-5
• BISAC categories:
• FIC028070 — Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel
• FIC028120 — Fiction / Science Fiction / Humorous
• FIC039000 — Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical

BACK COVER BLURB

Matthew Dunsratty has lived more lives than he can count and ruined most of them. A time diver by accident — he discovered in a past incarnation that deep meditation could connect him to a younger self and redirect the choices that shaped him — he has spent countless lifetimes trying to correct his greatest regrets. He wanted his soulmate Shannon. He wanted his kids. He wanted not to be the man who, in one burst of teenage passion, killed a kid named Francis Taylor with a better-made-than-expected toy sword. Instead, he’s in a state hospital for the criminally insane, where the medication is so powerful the Buzzsaw Killer can’t keep himself upright, the weekend doctor may literally be dead, and the only warm blankets in the building are reserved for staff.

Into this particular circle of hell wanders Billy Shovellbottom — night med tech, earnest romantic, and spectacularly easy to manipulate. Matthew has no illusions about himself. He knows he’s using Billy. He knows he’ll keep using Billy. But if he can just get his medication reduced long enough to achieve the mental clarity required to time dive, he can go back and stop young Matthew from making the mistakes that landed him here. He can fix this one. This is the last time he’ll need to fix anything. He’s told himself that before.

Purgatory’s Best Shot is a pitch-black comedy and a genuine gut-punch — the story of a man trapped in his own worst consequences, manipulating the only person kind enough to notice him, in service of a plan that may simply add another ruined life to his already staggering collection. Craig Robertson writes Matthew Dunsratty as someone who is completely self-aware about how far he’s fallen, completely unable to stop falling, and absolutely, viciously funny about all of it. This is a book about regret, redemption, and what happens when the only person standing between you and your past is the version of you that made the mess in the first place.

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Tropes and Genres in Purgatory’s Best Shot

Purgatory’s Best Shot is built on a collision of irresistible tropes. The unreliable narrator is front and center — Matthew is self-aware, funny, and completely untrustworthy about his own motives. The trapped man with a plan drives the plot, as every page inches closer to Matthew’s scheme to get his meds reduced and dive back into a better life. The darkly comic institution draws from a rich tradition — Kesey, Heller — with its parade of grotesque authority figures (Tucker the sadist, Ward Attendant Hampers the useless, Doc Wigglesworth the possibly dead lone practitioner at the asylum) and unexpectedly human patients. Time travel as self-sabotage is the series’ big idea — Matthew isn’t a hero changing history, he’s a man who keeps redecorating the same wreckage. And underneath all of it: the lost soulmate, the specter of Shannon whose face he can no longer remember after twenty years of medication and solitude, haunting every choice he makes or fails to make.

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