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Marc McKnight Time Travel Adventures #4
Time Plague: Marc McKnight Time Travel Adventures
It’s 2036 and time travel experts are racing to stop a future plague capable of causing mass extinction in less than 40 years.
But Marc McKnight and his team’s success depends on Rachel Patterson, an incarcerated time traveler from the future who is violently obsessed with him. Unbeknownst to McKnight, a dangerous female Operative has been dispatched from the future to rescue Rachel, regardless of the cost and potentially catastrophic impact on history. McKnight and his team must outsmart the Operative to prevent both the plague, and the political revolution tied to its malevolent inception. Time Plague is Book 4 of the Marc McKnight Time Travel Adventures series.
But Marc McKnight and his team’s success depends on Rachel Patterson, an incarcerated time traveler from the future who is violently obsessed with him. Unbeknownst to McKnight, a dangerous female Operative has been dispatched from the future to rescue Rachel, regardless of the cost and potentially catastrophic impact on history. McKnight and his team must outsmart the Operative to prevent both the plague, and the political revolution tied to its malevolent inception. Time Plague is Book 4 of the Marc McKnight Time Travel Adventures series.
415 pages, Paperback
Published July 16, 2021
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About the author
Kim Megahee
10 books43 followersKim Megahee is a writer, musician, and retired computer consultant. He has a degree from the University of Georgia in Mathematics Education.
His background includes playing in rock bands, teaching high school, and much experience in computer programming, security and consulting.
He co-founded an computer consulting firm in 2012 and traveled on business to Europe, Central America, South America and New Zealand.
He started his writing career later in life, after a former student encouraged him to write down some of the stories he was fond of telling.
In addition to writing, he enjoys reading, boating on Lake Lanier, playing live music, and socializing with friends.
Kim lives in Gainesville, Georgia with his soulmate wife Martha and Leo, the brilliant but stubborn red-headed toy poodle.
His background includes playing in rock bands, teaching high school, and much experience in computer programming, security and consulting.
He co-founded an computer consulting firm in 2012 and traveled on business to Europe, Central America, South America and New Zealand.
He started his writing career later in life, after a former student encouraged him to write down some of the stories he was fond of telling.
In addition to writing, he enjoys reading, boating on Lake Lanier, playing live music, and socializing with friends.
Kim lives in Gainesville, Georgia with his soulmate wife Martha and Leo, the brilliant but stubborn red-headed toy poodle.
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October 26, 2025
📖 Title: Time Plague
✍️ Author: Kim Megahee
⭐️ Rating: (5 out of 5)
📅 Date Finished: October 21st, 2025
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🧵 Quick Summary:
In 2036, a deadly plague looms that threatens to wipe out humanity in just a few decades. The time-travel team led by Marc McKnight must race through time, undoing catastrophic events and confronting a ruthless operative from the future, in order to save the timeline and prevent global extinction.
💭 What I Loved:
- Witty banter
- Time travel and mystery thriller (two of my favorite things)
- Wholesome scenes
📌 Favorite Character:
Everybody in the team… That’s actually part of the team that is.
🗣️ Final Thoughts:
This is the fourth book in the series. I THINK it’s the final book, but I’m not sure. I REALLY hope it isn’t the final book. I have loved living in this world with all of these characters. I have loved every single book and flew through the pages. I have to be honest, this is one of those book series that I would be HAPPY to see adapted to a television series. I could see it being very popular. It SHOULD be a popular book series that everybody talks about in my opinion!
✍️ Author: Kim Megahee
⭐️ Rating: (5 out of 5)
📅 Date Finished: October 21st, 2025
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🧵 Quick Summary:
In 2036, a deadly plague looms that threatens to wipe out humanity in just a few decades. The time-travel team led by Marc McKnight must race through time, undoing catastrophic events and confronting a ruthless operative from the future, in order to save the timeline and prevent global extinction.
💭 What I Loved:
- Witty banter
- Time travel and mystery thriller (two of my favorite things)
- Wholesome scenes
📌 Favorite Character:
Everybody in the team… That’s actually part of the team that is.
🗣️ Final Thoughts:
This is the fourth book in the series. I THINK it’s the final book, but I’m not sure. I REALLY hope it isn’t the final book. I have loved living in this world with all of these characters. I have loved every single book and flew through the pages. I have to be honest, this is one of those book series that I would be HAPPY to see adapted to a television series. I could see it being very popular. It SHOULD be a popular book series that everybody talks about in my opinion!
October 18, 2024
Getting back on track, but lots of loose ends
Thank goodness this entry left most of the partisan political nonsense from book 3 behind and got back to the core time travel adventure trope. Still, this far along in the development of time travel one would assume a greater level of security and procedure around access and use of the time engines. Since, by using this technology it would be quite possible to acquire nuclear and biochemical weaponry, one would expect at least similar levels of defense in depth around it. But, no, it seems the only security around the technology is not even at the level of a SCIF installation. Additionally, no use for espionage? That is unlikely to the point of unbelievability. It’s nice to believe that ethical use only would take place. Nice, but not realistic. The whole Knight Rider/Airwolf “one man can make a difference” scenario just doesn’t happen in the halls of government and the military.
Thank goodness this entry left most of the partisan political nonsense from book 3 behind and got back to the core time travel adventure trope. Still, this far along in the development of time travel one would assume a greater level of security and procedure around access and use of the time engines. Since, by using this technology it would be quite possible to acquire nuclear and biochemical weaponry, one would expect at least similar levels of defense in depth around it. But, no, it seems the only security around the technology is not even at the level of a SCIF installation. Additionally, no use for espionage? That is unlikely to the point of unbelievability. It’s nice to believe that ethical use only would take place. Nice, but not realistic. The whole Knight Rider/Airwolf “one man can make a difference” scenario just doesn’t happen in the halls of government and the military.
July 8, 2022
I'll keep reading because I find the idea of modern Americans interacting with George Washington hard to resist, but what brought this book and book 3 in the series down was the ham-fisted politics. I personally don't care what Megahee's personal politics are. I have read and read authors from Samuel Delaney and Stephen King--both of whom I know to be pretty liberal--to authors like David Weber and Orson Scott Card, whose personal politics are more right-leaning. The problem is that, especially in Time Revolution and Time Plague, the aggressive anti-left bias of the author is off-putting and aspires to the subtlety of Atlas Shrugged. It perpetuates the worst conspiracy fever-dreams of Fox News. An author's personality and worldview will always shine through but you don't have attack potentially half your reading audience.
March 17, 2023
Lots More Time Travel Hocus-Pocus … with a Beginning, and Most of an Ending (Not Quite)
This was a good series to read for Time Traveling, but it had a lot of holes, and The Author’s perspective on politics was not a plus for these books.
As another example for too much finessing — The Team wants to supersede a previous jump, but they plan to do it by jumping to the site where the previous jump occurred and telling them to abort — But, wouldn’t it have made A LOT more sense to simply jump into their Lab AHEAD of the previous jump, and just stop that part of The Team from doing it?
The Author also made a point of identifying the new ‘bad guys’ as women if they had an even number, and men if they had an odd number. THEN he throws the entire scheme out the window by identifying a woman as #439. What a short memory The Author has!!!
This was a good series to read for Time Traveling, but it had a lot of holes, and The Author’s perspective on politics was not a plus for these books.
As another example for too much finessing — The Team wants to supersede a previous jump, but they plan to do it by jumping to the site where the previous jump occurred and telling them to abort — But, wouldn’t it have made A LOT more sense to simply jump into their Lab AHEAD of the previous jump, and just stop that part of The Team from doing it?
The Author also made a point of identifying the new ‘bad guys’ as women if they had an even number, and men if they had an odd number. THEN he throws the entire scheme out the window by identifying a woman as #439. What a short memory The Author has!!!
November 21, 2021
Although I enjoyed Kim Megahee's first 3 books, I found this one to be his best. All of his finely drawn characters are believable and although Army Ranger, Marc McKnight, was always my favorite, I'm leaning now toward Captain Karen Hatcher. The storyline is exciting and one can never anticipate what is coming next. A very creative writer, Kim is clever in keeping the reader involved with the story and the characters.
He has a knack of leaving questions in your mind about what comes next, keeping you turning the pages and especially at the end, when you know you must read his next book! This book is highly recommended to anyone, not just those who love a great time-travel read! Judy Welden, Author of "An Unstoppable Survivor"
He has a knack of leaving questions in your mind about what comes next, keeping you turning the pages and especially at the end, when you know you must read his next book! This book is highly recommended to anyone, not just those who love a great time-travel read! Judy Welden, Author of "An Unstoppable Survivor"
August 13, 2021
In The Time Plague (Marc McKnight Time Travel Adventure Book 4), Author Kim Megahee has penned another exciting book about time travel. It involves military intel, top-secret missions, and time manipulation to change historical events. Time manipulation is once again used to stop a plague that threatens chaos over the world. I was never a fan of time travel until reading the Marc McKnight Time Travel Adventure Series. Megahee’s creative skills allow the reader to experience convincing time travel situations with intense storylines and well-developed characters.
The Time Plague may very well be his best work-to-date.
The Time Plague may very well be his best work-to-date.
February 23, 2022
First, I want to thank author Kim Megahee for the gift of this book - I'm so sorry this review is so delayed. I really enjoyed this read! I love books about time travel and this one was really fun. I have to give props to Kim for writing his books in a manner that allow them to be read as stand-alone novels. I have not read the three books leading up to Time Plague, but it was still easy to follow along and that issue did not cause any problems for me in understanding this book. I really enjoyed the different characters, plot points, and the idea of the operatives as clones was really interesting. I'm interested in what comes next!
September 19, 2021
Another Fun Time Travel!!
I loved the overall theme of this book, but I don’t want to give it away!
However, I can say this book kept me thinking about past, present, and future impact on each other when time traveling.
I even had my wife guessing about the impact on the timeline when I just had to talk about what was going on in the book.
She’s not a sci-fi reader, but totally got pulled in when I started talking about what they were up to!
I loved the overall theme of this book, but I don’t want to give it away!
However, I can say this book kept me thinking about past, present, and future impact on each other when time traveling.
I even had my wife guessing about the impact on the timeline when I just had to talk about what was going on in the book.
She’s not a sci-fi reader, but totally got pulled in when I started talking about what they were up to!
April 18, 2023
Great idea but Right Wing propaganda spoils it.
I was really enjoying the sci-fi aspects of this series until the author revealed an obvious indoctrination on his part in right wing conspiracy theories with items like the deep state, and demonization of liberals. Luckily, it was possible to read around that stuff and still enjoy the story for those of us connected to reality. I fear that right wingers will see this as further confirmation of their paranoia.
I was really enjoying the sci-fi aspects of this series until the author revealed an obvious indoctrination on his part in right wing conspiracy theories with items like the deep state, and demonization of liberals. Luckily, it was possible to read around that stuff and still enjoy the story for those of us connected to reality. I fear that right wingers will see this as further confirmation of their paranoia.
February 11, 2022
The best of the series so far, written with some current political and scientific situations in mind.
The main characters come to life a bit better than in Megahee's previous novels in the Marc McKnight series, with more learned about their backgrounds and personalities.
I liked the sections on the cloned "operatives"—with the focus on one in particular.
Worth your time!
The main characters come to life a bit better than in Megahee's previous novels in the Marc McKnight series, with more learned about their backgrounds and personalities.
I liked the sections on the cloned "operatives"—with the focus on one in particular.
Worth your time!
August 15, 2022
The time travel story was good, but the references to the "deep state" were disappointing
Clearly, this author is influenced by far right wing politics, so the storyline references to "antifa" and the "deep state" were hugely disappointing and ridiculous, so while the time travel concept was appealing, not going to read anything more from this author.
Clearly, this author is influenced by far right wing politics, so the storyline references to "antifa" and the "deep state" were hugely disappointing and ridiculous, so while the time travel concept was appealing, not going to read anything more from this author.
October 11, 2021
Excellent book. Very interesting. Time travel done in a believable fashion. Character development very well done. Fourth in the series, but a stand-alone story. Want to get the first three books to see how each story developed. Also looking forward to the next adventure of Marc McKnight.
July 9, 2024
Why not uses time machine to fix things important to the team.
He slotted this book in between others, well p!otted. I wish there was a secret prison for the worst, more secret than gitmo. Adding more agents to the team is ok.
He slotted this book in between others, well p!otted. I wish there was a secret prison for the worst, more secret than gitmo. Adding more agents to the team is ok.
December 29, 2024
good story
Good continuing story line. Some supporting characters need more development. Very interesting main characters but would like to see more about them and their own story lines
Good continuing story line. Some supporting characters need more development. Very interesting main characters but would like to see more about them and their own story lines
October 1, 2021
Action packed time travel story. Very entertaining to read. This was a Goodreads giveaway winner.
February 1, 2023
Exciting from end to end!
The story takes us to some rather interesting times, places and events. I very much look forward to the author’s next installment.
The story takes us to some rather interesting times, places and events. I very much look forward to the author’s next installment.
January 3, 2026
very fun reading!
This is good science fiction. A Good reader will fly through this book and be ready for the next one….
This is good science fiction. A Good reader will fly through this book and be ready for the next one….
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