The year is 1979, and the United States has made the final reparations payment to Nazi Germany by granting the Third Reich full sovereignty over the Virgin Islands. Although their forces have been withdrawn from the West Coast, the enforcement of the terms of the Allies' surrender to Imperial Japan will continue to stunt the economic growth of the remaining democracies-the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-until 1999. These are the realities of life that the postwar generation has accepted because it has no other choice. Then one morning in May it all beings to change. Lured by a brief article in The Washington Post, Dr. Ted Mattox, a thirty-nine year old college professor, willingly risks his life in the hope that he might have the chance to alter history. His entire scholarly career has been consumed with trying to discover the fate of Klause von Richter, an eccentric Austrian physicist, who claimed to have conquered time travel. The plans for the Time Tunnel vanished in the possession of a British agent, Katherine Bowen, the night von Richter died in the summer of 1939. In a bizarre turn of events, Dr. Mattox rescues the lovely spy as she leaves her time and enters his. Determined to change the future they form a partnership to outwit a host of Nazi agents and assassins. They fall in love, and yet they are willing to hazard their own happiness to fashion a hopefully better world.