TimeRiders: Gates of Rome (Book 5)

<p><b>Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.<br>Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.<br>Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.<br><br>But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists.<br>Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . .</b><br><br>Project Exodus - a mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived seventeen years earlier, during the reign of Caligula.<br><br>Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, <i>all </i>of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past. <br><br>Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned - and under threat - how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right? <br><br>** Book five in the bestselling TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow. <br>** Ancient Rome gets a time-travel makeover!<br>** <i>TimeRiders (Book 1)</i> won the Red House Book Award older readers category, and was Penguin UK's first ever number one on the iBookstore. <br>** www.time-riders.co.uk</p>