Gun for Hire

Joe Prantera is mid-kill when the world shifts. One moment he's a professional assassin in 1960, the next he awakens in 2133 - a future humanity has scrubbed clean of violence, crime, and punishment. The people here haven't just outlawed harm; they've evolved past it. They've forgotten what a gun is for. Now the leaders of this peaceful world need something they've never needed before: a killer. Someone called Howard Temple-Tracy poses a threat they cannot fathom how to stop, and they've brought Prantera across time to do what he does best. But as he navigates this bewildering society - one that holds his entire profession as a relic of barbarism - Prantera must confront what his hands have done and whether redemption is possible for a man whose only skill is death. The assignment has layers he doesn't expect, and the twist reveals the uncomfortable truth about why they really brought a murderer to save their utopia.