Sharon Ahern

When Jack Naille is sent a photograph of a namesake and his family in front of a general store, there was a degree of humour in the situation until he and his family realised that the man was the spitting image of his good self and the photo was from almost a hundred years ago. It seemed that the impossible was going happen, sending Jack and his family a hundred years into the past. Although not really believing the possibility, every bit of research that Jack and Ellen uncovered just added show more to the liklihood of the strangest trip they could ever make.

Jerry Ahern is familiar with facing his protagonists with unyielding odds - he's the author of The Survivalist series and while the Wild West must be a better place than a nuclear weapon scarred US, the Nailles must deal with a meglomanic company boss who sees dealing weapons to an empire Hell-bent on world domination in her past shows the risks of travelling through time. show less

I read this back around junior high or thereabouts, enjoyable enough action/adventure fare for a not-particularly-discriminating kid who devoured "men's adventure" series like Mack Bolan and Able Team like candy. On the cover it says, "Compelling action in the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark," and I guess that says it all. I remember at the end there was some silly business about an ancient alien spaceship; so, full circle, huh?

I'm not rating it because I must admit I stopped reading it early on because extraneous US politics with which I don't agree got in the way of my enjoying the base story....the characters thank God for Ronald Reagan, lug "Atlas Shrugged" downtime with them...look with fondness at Nixon and Goldwater --- and thats within the first 30 or so pages. And in no way did it seem to be necessary to the storyline.