After returning from a dangerous time travel voyage, a field agent and a paleontologist create their own time travel firm. Out to discredit the agent, his former employers sabotage his next expedition—leaving him no alternative but to successfully complete a trip to observe Alexander the Great. From the author of The Spiral Dance. Original.

In this sequel to "The Virgin and the Dinosaur", Jake Bento time travels in the Bronze Age, hoping to locate a lost time-traveling expedition. He is shocked to discover that his employers are masquerading as gods, enslaving the locals and pillaging art treasures. Abandoned in the Bronze Age by his employer, Jake has no alternative but to overthrow "the gods".