A Matter of Time (Cook novel)

A Matter of Time
AuthorGlen Cook
Cover artistBarry Jackson
SubjectAmerican prisoners of war being brainwashed
GenreScience fiction, time travel
Set inCommunist China and St. Louis, Missouri
PublisherBerkley Pub. Group
Publication date
1985
Pages268 pages
ISBN0441522130
OCLC12129231

A Matter of Time is a novel by Glen Cook, combining elements of science fiction (specifically, time travel), crime fiction and spy thriller. In regard to the last, the novel in particular takes up and expands the theme of American prisoners of war being brainwashed in Communist China and their loyalties reversed – a theme made famous through the novel The Manchurian Candidate and film made on its basis.

The book was re-published in 2011, along with other earlier works of Glen Cook.