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In book 11 of the Time Wars series, Mr. Hawke gets his act together. The story starts on the outskirts of Rome, 49 B.C.E. The night before Julius Caesar's march on Rome, an oracle comes and warns him of his assassination--awaiting him five years in the future--and names his assassins. Caesar is impressed, but not as much as his aide Lucius, who is really a deep cover agent of the Temporal Corps. Lucius contacts TAC headquarters and the Time Commandos are sent back to investigate. They have the unpleasant task of flushing out the enemy agents and ensuring that the charismatic dictator of Rome meets his doom. While The Cleopatra Crisis is not the best in the series, but it's a definite improvement from past efforts. Like the more recent novels in the series, it's based on history rather than a literary work. Even better, a certain recurring villain is absent, giving Mr. Hawke a chance to introduce us to some new bad guys as well as the politics and culture of ancient Rome. It's a book I would definitely recommend checking out.

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// posted by John @ 2:49 PM