Review by Frank Plowright

Reconnect is a company offering their services to a very select clientbase able to afford the money for time travel. Agents jump back in time rescue a person about to die and bring them back to the present day having arranged matters to seem as if events have played out as they would have without interference. In the case of Kelly Ingram it requires rescuing her from a car crash, yet still making it seem as if she died. Partners Mike and Seth are allocated the case, but Seth isn’t feeling so good. And does Reconnect harbour a dark secret?

Well, this is an Ed Brisson concept, so you can take that for granted. What plays out is a high consequences game of cat and mouse with Mike and Seth stuck in the past and the FBI on their trail. Seasoned thriller readers will immediately work out methods of how elements of the plot can be circumvented, but Brisson’s a step ahead and has covered the loopholes via the brilliantly simple and equally brilliantly effective method of paranoia. If no-one knows who to trust, who can say what the truth is? When is a corpse not a corpse? It’s the series premise, so if that can be reconfigured, so can anything else.

The concept is so good it needs no extra bells and whistles to sell it, and so Michael Walsh’s contribution is largely restricted to excellent storytelling. He defines the cast and their situations well, provides the necessary senses of confusion and foreboding and really excels when changing circumstances in the past begin to affect the present.

Comeback is smart, violent and compelling, with the final secret kept until the end.