Chicago, 26th century: Bureaucracy and biochip implants help people turn on, tune in, and drop out. Traffic riots are as common as your morning cup of coffee, terrorist attacks as regular as your paycheck. But the men and women of the Time Institute, explorers of the fourth dimension, mine past history for the ore of change.

Greece, 14th century: Blood, sweat, courage, and treachery run rampant in the hills, while knight and knave clash in the battle to rule Greece. Noel Kedran, cast adrift in time, dares not act even to save himself, for any disruption of recorded history could fracture the time stream leading back to the future. But when a stranger appears who is his mirror image, he knows his troubles are just beginning.
DC: The basic premise for the entire, six-book Time Trap series is that historian time traveler Noel Kedran is trapped in the past because of equipment malfunction. Instead of being able to return home, he keeps getting bounced from one time and place to another. He has to take great care not to change important events in any way to avoid destroying the future. That particular plot gimmick happens frequently to time travelers so authors can keep them in the past.

What made this series fun was Leon, Noel’s mirror-image twin, who hinders him at every turn. Leon is created by the malfunction that trapped Noel in the first place, and he’s as rotten and unscrupulous as Noel is conscientious. Of course Leon delights in tampering with history all he can.
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