Having revitalized the classic Solar Queen series to critical acclaim,
Andre Norton and Sherwood Smith now turn their storytelling talents to
Norton's popular Time Traders series. Time agents Ross Murdock and
Eveleen Riorden are recalled from their honeymoon to take part in a
dangerous assignment: find a team of Russian scientists who have
vanished without a trace from a research mission in the past of a
far-off planet.
Along with a team of Russian time agents with their own mysterious
agenda and Saba, a new agent teamed with Gordon Ashe, they leap into the
alien world's distant history. There they encounter several alien races,
whose appearance, language, and customs are almost incomprehensibly
strange. Something changed this world, and music seems the only tool
that might prove a key to unlocking the planet's secrets. But as they
try to decipher a digital alien Rosetta stone, time is running out for
their mission. Ross now knows what happened to the missing
scientists--but can he save his team before they too vanish forever?
This thrilling adventure of a desperate race against treacherous time
itself is a tale filled with excitement and wonder in the grand Time
Traders tradition.
