July 4th. The day that defines freedom. Six dates across history. One mission: Stop the Shadow before independence itself is erased. The Shadow launches its most audacious attack yet—**targeting July 4th, Independence Day, across multiple timelines.** From the signing of the Declaration of Independence to a daring hostage rescue, from ancient Greek battlefields to the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the Time Patrol must defend the very concept of freedom across the ages. Bob Mayer delivers ambitious time travel science fiction where the enemy isn’t attacking one moment but the entire concept of independence across history. 🇺🇸The structure is brilliant: six Time Patrol agents deployed to six different July 4th moments, each critical to the development of freedom. **Entebbe, Uganda, 1976** – Eagle joins Israeli commandos for Operation Thunderbolt, but the Shadow has infiltrated the mission. **Philadelphia, 1776** – Doc faces an assassin targeting the Founding Fathers on signing day. **Monticello, Virginia, 1826** – Moms discovers Jefferson’s deathbed secret. **Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863** – Roland lies among the dead after Pickett’s Charge. **Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863** – Ivar must prevent Pemberton’s compromise. **Mantinea, Greece, 362 BC** – Scout faces Pandora and Pyrrha at a battle determining whether freedom can exist. ⏰

Mayer understands that time travel stories work best with high stakes and clear objectives. Each agent faces a different challenge, but all serve the same goal: preserve the timeline where independence and freedom developed. The Shadow’s strategy is sophisticated—rather than attacking random moments, they’re **targeting the precise junctures where timelines split,** the pivot points where history could have gone a very different direction. Today is one of those pivot points, and failure means more than just one battle lost—it means the entire concept of liberty never takes root. 🌍

What makes this epic time travel adventure: Mayer delivers six simultaneous missions across 2,400 years of history, all centered on July 4th and the fight for freedom. For readers who love time travel with multiple storylines, historical detail combined with speculative fiction, and teams of specialists fighting to preserve history, this offers scope and ambition. Six agents. Six battles for liberty. One impossible deadline. The Time Patrol series continues with this explosive Independence Day installment. 🎆

For years, the former CIA operator had been hiding in plain sight. Now a kill squad has him in their cross-hairs. To the townspeople of Blayne, Utah, population 202, Nick Mercer was just a friendly thirty-something woodworker living in a small cabin at the end of a dirt road. But Nick also kept **a fully stocked bug-out bag complete with a take-down sniper rifle, assorted passports, and a pouch full of uncut diamonds** hidden in the wall near his back door along with concealed surveillance cameras spread around his property. JT Sawyer introduces us to a protagonist living two lives—the quiet woodworker and the hunted former operative who knows his past will eventually find him. 🎯After a document forger is captured by authorities in Indonesia, Mercer’s aliases are eventually leaked to a powerful diamond broker with ties to Mercer’s past with the CIA in West Africa—a man who is willing to stop at nothing to hunt down the former agent. When a crew of private contractors disguised as FBI agents arrives in Blayne, Mercer discovers **his primary escape route along the highway in southeastern Utah is cut off.** Now, he must evade on foot through miles of rugged canyons. Sawyer understands that survival thrillers work best when the protagonist’s careful preparations meet unexpected complications—Mercer planned for this moment, but not for his escape route being compromised. 🏃‍♂️

With seasoned assassins and a CIA grab team closing in, Nick Mercer must rekindle old survival skills to outrun them… and his past. The title “Escape & Evade” references military survival training, and Sawyer delivers exactly that—a former operator using every skill in his arsenal to survive pursuit through some of America’s most unforgiving terrain. The Utah canyon country provides natural obstacles and strategic advantages for someone who knows how to use the environment. The bug-out bag, multiple passports, and uncut diamonds reveal Mercer has been preparing for this day for years. The question is whether preparation is enough when professional killers are hunting you. 🗻

What makes this a pulse-pounding series launch: Sawyer delivers survival thriller with a protagonist whose CIA past and careful planning collide with relentless pursuit through Utah wilderness. For readers who love former operative fiction, survival skills applied to deadly pursuit, and protagonists with mysterious pasts catching up to them, this launches Nate Hendrix’s story with immediate danger and no easy escape. The quiet woodworker life is over. Now it’s survive or die. 💀

In 1931, during its maiden voyage, **the British Airship Goliath mysteriously disappears without a trace.** Hidden deep inside is a secret that could change the world. Present day, in The Philippines, an attempted kidnapping draws historian Jennifer March and former soldier Ryan Mitchell into a deadly race to find the Goliath before a mysterious figure who threatens to topple governments and the lives of millions. From Alaska, to West Africa to Iceland the hunt for the truth is on. Richard Turner launches the Ryan Mitchell series with a historical mystery wrapped in modern thriller—a lost airship carrying world-changing secrets that multiple parties will kill to possess. 🎈The premise combines real historical intrigue (Britain did build large airships in the early 20th century, several of which met mysterious ends) with thriller plotting. What was on the Goliath that was worth making it disappear? Why does its discovery threaten governments nearly a century later? Turner pairs historian Jennifer March with former soldier Ryan Mitchell, giving readers both the research expertise to understand historical clues and the combat skills to survive when the treasure hunt turns deadly. The global scope—Philippines to Alaska to West Africa to Iceland—suggests the Goliath’s secret has international implications. 🌍

Turner understands that historical thriller works best when the past and present are equally compelling. The 1931 disappearance isn’t just backstory; it’s a mystery in its own right that readers want solved. The present-day race combines archaeology adventure (finding a lost airship), political thriller (the mysterious figure threatening governments), and action sequences (attempted kidnappings, presumably other violence as the hunt intensifies). The partnership between historian and soldier allows for both intellectual puzzle-solving and physical confrontation. 🔍

What makes this an intriguing series start: Turner delivers historical thriller with lost treasure, government conspiracies, and globe-spanning adventure. For readers who love Clive Cussler-style archaeological mysteries combined with modern military action, this launches Ryan Mitchell’s adventures with a compelling historical hook and high stakes. The Goliath disappeared in 1931. Finding it in the present could change everything—or destroy it. ⚔️