Time travelers abroad in a universe of improbability. A sequel to The Death of Time. Follow John Dillinger, Mary Shelley, Templar Grand Master Jacques de Moray, General Wei Shan, and others as they journey through the Catacombs of Paris, a Jurassic jungle, and a planet at the edge of eternity. These, and the alchemist, the scientist, the girl from a planet of deadly plague, the alchemist's apprentice, an evil scientist from the far future, and Scheherazade...