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In "The Time Traders," intelligence agents discover that the United States’ greatest adversary is deploying agents back through time, armed with technology far ahead of the modern era. Faced with this unprecedented challenge, the US government mobilizes its own scientific community to develop rapid‑time‑transfer capabilities. The race to locate the enemy’s ancient source of power and dismantle it drives a gripping narrative of espionage, science, and the high stakes of temporal warfare.
First publish date: 1958
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Andre Norton
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