Simon Hawke — The Pimpernel Plot

Headline Book Publishing 1988 Paperback, 211pp. Major Lucas Priest, vertern of the Time Wars, is well aware that time travel isn't simply an adventure and one false move could change the course of history - with disastrous consequences. The Time Commandos face the greatest challenge of their career - to readjust the events of the French Revoluction and correct a blunder made by a soldier of the Temporal Coprs. That error casued the death of Sir Percy Blakeney, codename The Scarlet Pimpernel, a brave English aristocract who rescued innocent victims from the kiss of the guillotine. Now someone must impersonate him and carry out the task. But a double agent from the twenty-seventh century has his own diabolical ideas about how history should proceed. (ISBN: 9780747230861). Good.