Narrator Oliver Wyman

Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past - and soon to be haunted by the future. In early 21st-century
Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event:
the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. Its arrival collapses trees
for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation.
It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates
a military victory - 16 years in the future.

Shortly afterwards, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok - obliterating the city and
killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals
from, seemingly, our own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note?

Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the
central mystery and a final battle with the future.

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