Time Spike: The First Cavalry of the Cretaceous

Time Spike #3

by Garrett W. Vance

The unlikely foursome of an AWOL US cavalry scout, a repentant conquistador, and two young chiefs of a neolithic pre-mounds tribe have formed a friendship and alliance that breaks the bonds of centuries and cultures. They are now the 'dragon'-slaying four Great Chiefs of the young Mesa Peoples and Allied Tribes, a human civilization growing against steep odds in the Earth's Cretaceous Period (introduced in Time The Mysterious Mesa).

These bold heroes now face a formidable foe, not the enormous dinosaurs that roam this ancient world, but other humans! The rapacious Rattlesnake Cult from the City of the Pyramids has laid siege to Stone Wall Village. Only the newly-minted First Cavalry of the Cretaceous, brave pre-mounds warriors astride a prehistoric equine species native to Pleistocene North America have a chance of saving their kinfolk and restoring peace and prosperity in the lush and deadly New New World. Here comes the cavalry!

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Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2022

About the author

Garrett W. Vance

I grew up like a tumbleweed in the arid wilds of eastern Washington State, riding horses and motorbikes through the sand and sage brush, enjoying great freedom of movement at a very young age. I was always headed out on expeditions to see what lay beyond the next shady canyon or rolling hill, a curiosity which eventually led me to travel widely in Europe, Asia and Africa. I'm pretty much the definition of a ' maverick,' safe but dull careers, mortgages and insurance are things I wouldn't touch with a seventy-two and a half foot pole. I prefer to be down to my last ducat and on the road, my personal wealth is all in experience. Wherever I go books have been my constant companions, they grant access to places no earthly airplane or ship can venture, to the limitless realms of the written word. I currently enjoy a ridiculously comfortable existence in Bangkok, Thailand and I'm not bored yet. My brain announced to me recently that "It's time to write!" so here I am.

Update: With Volume 15 I became the Art Director for the Gazette! Good thing I like a challenge. :-D

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good!

[Ronald Spitzer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good follow up book to Time Spike Mysterious Mesa. Fun characters and situations. The main battle did get a bit confusing, but battles do, so no big deal. This is a light read and was never intended as a deep meaning English teacher style book. The book leaves it open for a third installment, but no worry, just like the first book the complete stand alone story episode is told here and it is not left off in the middle. I expect the third book, which likely is several years away will do the same. Recommended as a fun quick read.

[Henry Lazarus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Garrett W. Vance continues the tale of a conquistador and a Texas ranger who find themselves living on an Earth where time periods are mixed together. In the last tale they found allies and untamed horses on a Mesa. This time in Time Spike: The First Cavalry of the Cretaceous (ebook from Baen) they face a villainous army and have to create a mounted army to oppose them. Fun.

[Bonny Fuller-Fells · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Allied tribes decide to ride horses

The influence of Nate and Gonzalo of cavalry gives them hope for a way to fight the large animals and evil they find in this New New World.