“Our orders are simple enough: Secure the deadliest weapons in history from an enemy installation. But it turns out there’s complications. The weapon is already released, leaving thousands dead. But the dead aren’t staying put: They rise from the mass graves as an unstoppable army of pestilence. Our most advanced weaponry is worse than useless. Our only hope is to undo the spell of a latter-day warlock, and our only help is a man whose ancestors started a world war. But if evil begets greater evil, maybe a small good can defeat the greatest of all evils. One thing’s sure: There’s one weapon that won’t fail, as long as there’s arms to swing it. And I’m going down swinging.”

“I’m Ted Flockman, senior field manager for Naughtenny Moore’s Time Travel Association. This is my story. Being a professional time traveler isn’t a safe job, let alone an easy one. I’ve tangled with dinosaurs, venomous lizards, armored fish, aggressive dodo birds and one mean toothless crocodile. I’ve survived plane crashes, car crashes and a ship wreck. But I’ve learned the hard way that the greatest danger in any time or place is human carelessness and malice. Fortunately, I always have my partner Carlos Wrzniewski standing by with an itchy but discriminating trigger finger, and a lovely technologies specialist named Dianna making sure we know the way home. With them by my side, I have never failed to get back… at least, not yet.”