Full Description
Science fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced, wry adventure of
time travel and twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales!
American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrust
into what he believes is a truck. He's relieved to find his captors very
apologetic, and very British — that is, until they begin speaking
about nations of which Bayard has never heard. His captors were from Earth, yes.
But not his Earth. Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths,
each different, where history has taken every possible turn — and there
are even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-time
travel. Bayard discovers that the Earth he has now been thrust into, the
Earth of the Imperium, is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earth
that has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time and whose ruler is... a parallel
version of Bayard himself! Now Bayard's mission is clear: to prevent his
alternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home,
the Imperium.
