If you’re reading this online, on the neural web, or on an e-reader, it could already be too late for you to properly prepare. This book was sent far back, with specific instructions and a large sum of money. One half of it was for the recipient as payment in good faith, and one half of it to be used to publish this story in whatever formats were available.

 If you found this in your mailbox, read page 43 immediately, then tear it out, page 43 is the only page that you are not to include in the published manuscript.  Then, read the following text for your health and safety: 

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This prologue’s inclusion within the published version is part of the very specific instructions. This book was meant for you, yes you, to read. I’m not exactly sure who you are but it was always very important that precisely you were to read this book. That’s why it was published where you would most likely read it, here, among other places. Usually, we just send the book to the right person, but in the information age, you had to hide your identity to get things like this done, so you didn’t leave much of a trace. We don’t exactly know who you are, we just know that you’re going to read this book.

All grammatical and syntactical errors in this book are part of the sequence and must be preserved so that this document may be retrieved and sent back with as little change as possible, so that the bootstrap sequence can continue unhindered. If you are the original recipient of this document please do not modify it's contents, and use the money provided to publish it without editorial influence. 

You see, this book is presented with colorful language so that it might enjoy some inkling of mass market appeal, but it’s really just an instruction booklet. It’s an instruction booklet for you, to be used at some point in the 2020s. If you’re reading this and it’s 2029 or later, well, then this book wasn’t meant for you, and has hopefully already served it’s purpose, or you’re certainly not reading it with indoor lighting. There’s going to be a guy named George. George has to kill The 47th president of the United States of America, Debora Windfall, and you have to help him do it.

These events are history in my time, specific history, history debated by conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theorists who cite this very book as evidence in their claims. The contents of this book are histories to come, that you are responsible for helping George get just right. You have to help George. You have to help George accomplish this goal, or the world is going to be consumed by nuclear war. These events are history in my time, specific history, history debated by conspiracy theorists. The contents of this book are histories to come, that you are responsible for helping George get just right.  

I’m the same one who sent the papers back to Lee Harvey Oswald, who took out Kennedy. Someone like you helped me then, and then again with someone who could have became important, and again someone like you will help in another few decades to take out Minister Zheng. We keep things in order. We keep you all alive. And now, you keep you all alive. Now, you’re one of us. You, the one of you who happens to be the right you, is reading the book somewhere, I hope. 

There are others who will try to stop you, who will try to stop George, but if you’ve done my job right, they won’t know where to aim. You’ll go undetected. You’ll be successful.

It would be a waste of time to continue talking about you, because your identity is a well obscured mystery, so I’m going to talk about George. I’m going to explain to you George’s background, so you know exactly what kind of man you have to help kill President Windfall.

George was born in 1991. He married and had 3 kids, 2 beautiful girls and a boy. His marriage will fall apart about 3 months before his boy’s 4th birthday, and that will be your fault. It has to be your fault, or George won’t kill the president, and if george doesn’t do that, the world will be over.

You’ll meet George in a bar in Hong Kong. You may already live in Hong Kong, you may have never considered going there in your life, but you will be there on January 13th 2023, and you’ll exchange contact information with George, claiming to be an investor interested in his startup. You will provide fake information. He will provide his actual information, and you will use it to keep tabs on him.

George is going to bet hard on your interest in his pitches to other investors for his tech startup. He’s going to talk about how “Hong Kong was very interested, we’re negotiating their investment now”. It’ll work in a few meetings, actually, but it won't work for very long. His startup is going to fail. It was a bad idea. However something vaguely similar did make a reasonable amount of money in 2043. It’s going to be another failure on a long list of failures that haunt him. And it needs to be at least partially your fault.

After this failure, he’s going to sink. He’ll do okay for a few years, doing some HR work in a few tech companies, but it won’t last. By 2026, near his son’s third birthday, his life and marriage with his wife of 8 years will fall apart. They’ll sign papers and scream the night after they blow out candles with little Stevie. The next three years are crucial years Stevie’s development, and crucial years for the survival of mankind.

You can put down the book here. It won't save George, and it won't save the world, but it is technically possible that it is not you who needs to read it. You could maybe bet on that chance. But you didn't. 

If it were you, you’d likely be skeptical, but just curious enough to keep reading. Just curious enough to take the book home, to subscribe, to download, to keep listening to the mp3.

After all, you were just curious enough to save the world.

Good luck. I hope you’re the right one. 

 If you are for any reason unable to locate the rest of this book, please forget that you ever read it.