The Proteus Operation — James P. Hogan

THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGIN'

Utopia was achieved in the 21st century. But even in a world of prosperity and freedom there were malcontents. They called themselves Overlord, and their possession of time travel gave them the ability to change the past and shape the future according to their twisted desires. They built a time gate, then picked a crucial turning point in the previous century and traveled back to transmute an obscure figure on the lunatic fringe of German politics into an invincible conqueror. His name: Adolph Hitler. By the 1970s, only North America and Australia remained free, but time was running out and both would soon be faced with a choice of surrender or nuclear annihilation.

Then a ray of hope arose: American agents learned of the 1 time gate, and smuggled technical information and defecting experts out of Europe. By 1975, the crash project -- code name `Proteus" --ordered by President John F. Kennedy had successfully built a second time gate. Threatened with annihilation at any time, the Americans take the desperate measure of sending a team back to 1939. Their mission: stop Overlord before its agents can give Hitler the weapons that will hand him the world on a silver platter!