The Time Traders: Andre Norton

Ross Murdock 1. Murdock, convicted criminal, 'volunteers' for a secret government project: Operation Retrograde. Unwillingly at first, but with increasing fervor, Murdock becomes a member of the team fighting the strangest battle of the Cold War. The Russians have infiltrated an unknown era of the past and developed powerful new weapons by utilising lost technology. American scientists also have the means to transport men into the past and it becomes imperative that Operation Retrograde succeed in finding and tapping the source of the Russian's secret weapons. Murdock and his team embark on a dangerous and frantic search of an almost-forgotten time in a Cold War where the past has become the battleground of the future. Cover art by Walter Velez.