A time-travel adventure that just might make you a believer. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was fun, as was the enjoyable A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and Jack Finney's delightful Time and Again. If you enjoyed these books, you’ll definitely want to read Mission in Time. However, after reading Mission in Time, this might be the first time you actually find yourself believing in time travel.

Imagine being sent on a time-travel mission expecting to arrive in a certain period of time and finding yourself in a very different era—a major period in the history of the United States.

Readers of Scott’s time-travel novel Mission in Time wrote that it was too bad he didn’t write a sequel. Well here it is, The Second Mission. The Second Mission takes off three years after Gil and Tom find themselves up 240 years back in time instead of the two years into the future they had expected to find themselves. Christopher Carver and Matthew Blair expect to benefit from what was learned from the first time-travel mission out of the secret government test facility in the Nevada desert. They fully expect the mission to be far more accurate than the first. But time travel isn’t easy, so you never know what can happen.

Imagine what it’s like for the time travelers (or chrononauts) when they find themselves with even more to contend with than their two predecessors. They find themselves in the middle of a war in an era when food, technology, sanitation, recreation and vocabulary are far different from what they’re used to in the 21^st century.

Readers of Richard Scott’s first two time-travel novels, Mission in Time and The Second Mission, who are looking for answers and closure will be delighted with this final book in his Time-Travel Trilogy. Not only do his chrononauts go back to the American Revolution, but they have encounters with George Washington and other revolutionary stalwarts. They have also learned that they can do things with time travel that they couldn’t do in the first two books: Things that make this book even more fun and exciting than the first two novels. If you're a history buff, you'll learn a lot about the period you probably didn't know.

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