In Time Lapse, Walter Job becomes submerged in the possibility we all might face: what happens to the ordinary individual who, living in our violence-obsessed culture, discovers within himself a taste and talent for murder? Walter Job is a thoughtful and methodical man in both of his occupations, as a professor at a small Midwestern College, and as a paid killer. His intellectual talents have been developed by a great American university, and his murderous skill honed by the US Army. He struggles with the art of balancing these seemingly disparate parts of his world. Pursued by officials seeking to end his decade-long killing spree, enmeshed in the powerful tug of his family, and unsettled by a sexual obsession with a colleague, he traverses middle America in a journey to redefine what is moral and what is mortal. - Dust jacket.