TimeRiders: Gates of Rome - Alex Scarrow
by Renjith Joseph
I forgot to write this up right after I finished it. Book number 5 in the TimeRiders series was hectic.
In the future, a team of scientists, dispairing over the state of the world, decide to take 300 of the richest and most "useful"
people back into the past to change the outcome of human history. The leader is Dr Rashim Anwar. He tries to get them to 54 AD in
Rome, but miscalculates and they appear 17 years earlier, in the middle of the reign of Caligula, a crazy, insane emporer. Liam and
Bob are sent back to 54 AD by Maddy to observe and then come back safely (Becks' body dies in #4). Of course this does not happen.
The main secret/mystery of the series this far is being closely examined by the TimeRiders. When they remember what their "coach" said
about contacting the "agency" they work for, they try it out, only to find themselves being "hunted down" by "combat units" from the "future".
Yeah. Exactly.
Sal and Maddy get plopped into Rome, a week after Liam and Bob are sent (a week was when the return time-travel portal was arranged).
They realise that they have to somehow build another time-travel machine to go anywhere. Teaming up with a clan from Rome, they try to
kill Caligula, who has half a dozen combats units.
A really great book with tons of action. At the end, it was kind of too fast, as they abandoned someone they knew for a few hours,
for someone they knew for a few minutes.
10/10
As said before, ask for GOR and I'll give it to you. I don't have any other TR books, though, just 4 & 5. (And 6 now :D)
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