Crossing Game

The fifth book of D.L. Narrol’s time-travel series has the same steampunk 1912 time-travelers venture again via Dr. Dimitrikov’s time machine. They’ve somehow adopted a misplaced cave lion, an ill-behaved Neanderthal and Olga, the assistant commander of the KGB, from their future - The Soviet Union, 1970. Captain Limmerick tries to have his new companions assisted back to their time periods, but not all goes as planned. Dr. Dimitrikov discovers nuclear fuel when they had previously time travelled to the U.S.S.R. in previous book Arctic Quest, but is inept on how to use it. They land in 1992, to discover the KGB has been over-run with corrupt pseudo-capitalism.

The time machine’s control panel is tampered with by the hostile Neanderthal, which leads the time travelers to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1900, during the Anglo-Boer War. Captain Limmerick had evaded this war twelve years prior in his own time period, but is compelled to involve himself because of his righteous beliefs and his love and admiration for a victimized Zulu woman. Limmerick’s distaste for war comes into place, where he changes history forever.