Synopsis: A man out of time - The traitor turned the key. The anarchist opened the door. And Noel Kedran, scientist and historian, stepped through to become a castaway in time... Chicago, 26th Century: Bureaucracy and biochip implants help people turn on, tune in, drop out. Traffic riots are as common as your morning cup of coffee, terrorists attacks as regular as your paycheck. But the men and women of the Time Institute, explorers of the fourth dimension, mine past history of the ore of change. Greece, 14th Century: Blood, sweat, courage, and treachery run rampant in the hills, while knight and knave clash in the battle to rule Greece. Noel Kedran, cast adrift in time, dares not act even to save himself, for any disruption of recorded history could fracture the time stream leading back to the future. But when a stranger appears who is his mirror image, he knows he's snared in a Time Trap. (from the back cover of the Ace Books first edition)