Synopsis: Jake Bento's exploratory excursion back to the Bronze Age was expected to be somewhat suicidal - a death-wish assignment to be undertaken by only the most foolhardy. But four previous expedition teams have gone missing and now it is up to Bento and the rest of the Argo rescue squad to discover what went wrong. From the moment he arrives - on the first day of a Mediterranean summer, 20,000 years prior to his birth - Bento realizes that the true catastrophe could be his own. For he may be trapped in this past where lowly mortals mix with the Gods themselves, abandoned by the future - his future - and no longer welcome in either. (from the back cover of the AvoNova first edition)