This is a story of time travel in a strange attempt to avoid a pandemic, a man-made pandemic. It starts in 2005 when the future comes back to visit a new born baby. Then we follow this baby as he grows for a couple of decades and then he disappears. As with a lot of time travel stories there is a bit of jumping about.

Overall it's mildly entertaining. It always raises the paradox of "if you chance the past do you cease to exist?" The characters are likeable enough and it's an easy story to follow. It does make one think about things like man made pathogens and why we even tinker in the field. However, in light of the recent changes in AI technologies I don't think the future envisioned in this book is the one we are heading toward.