The Axis of Time: vol. 1, Issue #0

Weapons Of Choice

Plot

<b><i>On the eve of America's greatest victory in the Pacific, <br>a catastrophic event disrupts the course of World War II, forever changing the rules of combat. . . . <br><br></i></b>The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. A military experiment in the year 2021<b> </b>has thrust an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll - and what was to be the most spectacular U.S. triumph of the entire war. <br><br>Thousands died in the chaos, but the ripples had only begun. For these veterans of Pearl Harbor - led by Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, and Spruance - have never seen a helicopter, or a satellite link, or a nuclear weapon. And they've never encountered an African American colonel or a British naval commander who was a woman <i>and </i>half-Pakistani. While they embrace the armada's awesome firepower, they may find the twenty-first century sailors themselves far from acceptable.<br><br>Initial jubilation at news the Allies would win the war is quickly doused by the chilling realization that the time travelers themselves - by their very presence - have rendered history null and void. Celebration turns to dread when the possibility arises that other elements of the twenty-first century task force may have also made the trip - and might now be aiding Yamamoto and the Japanese.<br><br>What happens next is anybody's guess - and everybody's nightmare. . . .<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>