Nick of time
By: Ted Bell.
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; St. Martin's Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780312380687
Subjects: Nelson, Horatio Nelson, -- Viscount, -- 1758-1805 -- Fiction; Churchill, Winston, -- Sir, -- 1874-1965 -- Fiction; Boys -- Channel Islands -- Fiction; World War, 1939-1945 -- Channel Islands -- Fiction; Pirates -- Fiction; Kidnapping -- Fiction; Rescues -- Fiction; Time travel -- Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war, Nick and his sister, Kate, begin gathering vital information about the imminent Nazi invasion. But the Nazis become the least of Nick's problems after he discovers a time machine hidden in a cove. Unfortunately, the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, who travels through time capturing little children and holding them for ransom, will stop at nothing to possess the priceless machine. With the help of Lord Hawke, whose children have been taken by Blood, Nick must fight the ruthless pirate on land and sea in two different centuries in a desperate attempt to save his home and his family from being utterly destroyed.