Black Tuesday
By: Bob Mayer
Series: Area 51: a Time Patrol novel
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781503946637
Subjects: Fiction; Intelligence service; Time travel; Secret societies; Good and evil; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description: When a mysterious force known only as the Shadow infiltrates history, it has a suspicious target: the date October 29 in six different years spanning 999 to 1980. The Time Patrol must send its highly skilled members into the past with only twenty-four hours to stop the destruction each time. Each targeted date features a significant event, including Sir Walter Raleigh's beheading in 1618, the American stock market crash of 1929, and the first Internet message sent in 1969. But the missions are never as clear-cut as they seem, leading the team straight into the dangerous paths of extraordinary adversaries, such as yetis, krakens, and Vikings. As time grows short, the Time Patrol learns that no amount of training and experience can prepare them for the enemies they battle and the alternate realities they face. And now, six changes to history could lead to the ultimate catastrophe: the end of existence.