The Time Traders
By: by Andre Norton.
Series: Time Traders #1
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: July 1980
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780441812530
Copyright date: 1958
Subjects: Murdock, Ross (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Fox, Travis (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.; Time travel -- Fiction.
Genres: Fantasy fiction.
Description: Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with technologies -- and weapons -- far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source...and take it dawn.

When small-time criminal Ross Murdock and Apache rancher Travis Fox stumble separately onto America's secret time travel project, Operation Retrograde, they are faced with a challenge greater than either could have imagined possible. Their mere presence means that they know too much to go free. But Murdock and Fox have a thirst for adventure, and Operation Retrograde offers that in spades.

Both men will become time agents, finding reserves of inner heroism they had never expected. Their journeys will take the battle to the enemy, from ancient Britain to prehistoric America, and finally to the farthest reaches of interstellar space...
Notes: Ace #81253.
Cover art by Walter Velez.