Kenneth O'Neil travels back to 1962 to prevent the world’s first nuclear war. Upon arrival, he suffers from amnesia. As he struggles to remember what he should be doing in this unfamiliar world, he falls in love with teacher Louise Jensen. He is unaware a Chinese agent, Hwang Ko, has followed him to the past. By killing O’Neil, Ko will protect both the future of the woman he loves and the history that led to China’s supreme rule.
Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of Behind the Mask of Chivalry (a New York Times “noteworthy” book of the year) and Freedom is Not Enough, which was called by the Chicago Tribune “contemporary history at its best.” The William Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.