It's a diabolical game of cat and mouse as top TEC agent Jack Logan tracks a scavenger through time and history . . . USA, 2007: There's a deadly thief on the loose, with stolen millions and a time machine that could virtually shut down the planet. Now the world's most covert agency—the Time Enforcement Commission—must find him before he destroys the world. TEC cop Jack Logan gets his first glimpse of the scavenger at the Empire State Building—just seconds before a B-25 slams into it on a summer morning in 1945. The felon escapes, and Logan survives to discover huge disturbances in the timestream—all connected to the scavenger's shopping list. From the fabled Lost Dutchman Mine to a Mississippi steamboat and a cyberfortress unsettingly close to the nation's capital, Logan races to apprehend the scavenger before he executes his chilling plan of global murder . . .