The following review was contributed by WARREN THURSTON

A soap-opera actress with old family tragedies is recruited for a treasure hunt that will take her back to Dallas in 1963. She agrees to go, but only if she can spend time with the father she never knew, who disappeared forever the day the president was shot. Once back in 1963, though, she will find that her beloved lost father is somehow tied to a plot that will result in the assassination of the president. She finally makes the decision to try to save the president's life - with the help of one unlikely ally: An ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.

FORWARD TO CAMELOT moves as quickly as the best thrillers do, and is crammed full of historic detail. Readers who remember 1963 will believe they are really there again.

I was particularly intrigued with the characterizations of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Both men are depicted differently in this book than in anything else I have seen, but the characterizations are so persuasive and so detailed that - who knows? - perhaps they are true.

Kennedy is a sick and frail man who hides his infirmities and personal secrets under a façade of Kennedy optimism and 'vi-gah'; Oswald, far from being the crazed and sullen 'lone-nut' history has painted him, is resourceful, courageous and committed. The relationship between them is remarkably congenial. For me, one of the highlights of the book is the scene in which Cady, Kennedy and Oswald spend the night in a bomb shelter and get to know one another. All three are hiding secrets they will share with the others; all three will bond closer because of what they learn.

Cady's perceptions will change sharply once she is back in 1963, and she will learn thing she regrets, but things that make her stronger. She is a character we will like at once and grow to love.

This is a book that grabbed my attention from the first page to the last. I became totally immersed in the fabric of the story.

Books are meant to entertain and carry the reader along on a great adventure. FORWARD TO CAMELOT did this for me, not slowing its pace for an instant. I really enjoyed the book and was sorry it had to end.

This book is destined to become a classic in its genre. I highly recommend it to all who seek a challenge to their senses.