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**Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912.** ** Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.** ** Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.** * * * ** But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists.** ** Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . .** 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. Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, *all *of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past. 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? ** Book five in the bestselling TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow. ** Ancient Rome gets a time-travel makeover! ** *TimeRiders (Book 1)* won the Red House Book Award older readers category, and was Penguin UK's first ever number one on the iBookstore. ** www.time-riders.co.uk