Time Tunnel: The Empire

Time Tunnel, Book 2

By: Richard Todd

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

September 11, 2001. Padma Mahajan mourns the loss of her newlywed husband, Major Kyle Mason, killed while defeating terrorists from crashing American 11 into the World Trade Center. As she watches harrowing videos on TV of American 11 missing the North Tower by mere feet, a mysterious visitor enters her apartment, possessing stunning knowledge about the future. Leveraging this information, Padma becomes the world’s wealthiest person and de facto "Empress of America" until a new authoritarian challenges her rule and forces her and the visitor from the future to escape into the past - through the Time Tunnel.

An accident in the Time Tunnel throws the couple hopelessly off course. Lost in time, they use their knowledge of the future to change the outcome of one of history’s most heinous massacres. As they attempt to change the past, they are hunted by Colonel Annika Wise, who has orders to kill the time traveling duo.

Time Tunnel: The Empire is the thrilling sequel to Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers, a daring suspense story in which history is changed for better...and worse.

©2019 Richard Todd Miller (P)2019 Time Tunnel Media

Critic reviews

"Time Tunnel: The Empire was a crazy good adventure that I would have never expected from this sci-fi style book. It is a must-read that I could hardly put down." (Manhattan Book Review)

"[E]erie similarities to our current political climate cannot be denied.... This book also ends on a great cliffhanger, leaving the reader wanting much more." (San Francisco Book Review)

"In this second installment of a series, Todd (Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers, 2019) continues exploring the intriguing possibilities of time travel, backing up his speculations with well-researched history and believable science. Though adept at setting up exciting, tense confrontations, the author is also a thoughtful writer, and his characters are appropriately vulnerable, though Padma is hailed as the messiah of Lakota prophecy and Kyle has modern weaponry. Todd’s Lakota camp and the town of Deadwood come vividly alive with well-chosen, telling details such as the checkerboard that sits atop a general store’s cracker barrel. The cliffhanger ending will leave readers eager for the next volume." (Kirkus)

"Just like the first novel in the series The Twin Towers, The Empire is full of action, intrigue, and suspense. Richard Todd does a fantastic job of retelling historical events, which are brilliantly researched." (Seattle Book Review)

"Relationships are tested in this story; the only way to know how you truly feel about someone is to throw them in a situation together for which they are totally unprepared. The reader is able to delve deeper into the feelings of the characters and grasp a better understanding for the motivation of their actions. As in Twin Towers, there is action galore, and The Empire includes another story from history that originally ended badly, but now occurs in a way we would have liked for it to have played out. The ending was a complete shock, with another phase in the Time Tunnel series coming at a later date." (Tulsa Book Review)

Not as good as book 1

More like a romance novel than a science fiction time travel story. Disappointing but I will read book 3 and reserve judgment

Best Time Travel Ever

I have read a lot of time travel stories, but this book is at the top of the list. More twists and turns than I can count. I did turn up the speed on the narrator to 1.25 after a couple of chapters. She reads a little slow, and I was impatient to get to the next chapter. I can not wait for the third in the series. Sort of hope there are more than three books. This storyline could go on forever.

Loved the first book, but this.... ?

I found the second book in this series extremely frustrating. I like that Richard Todd tried to subvert our expectations to make it interesting, but in the process, he warped the characters I grew to like beyond all recognition. All of the major players did things that went way, way, way against their established characters with no regard to the effect that their MAJOR actions would have on history.

Characters I found sympathetic in the first book annoyed me so much that I was glad when the book ended.

Thumbs up story thumbs down performance

While the story is pretty fantastic the performance is annoying and tiresome. When Padma and Kyle keep referring to each other as "beloved" over and over again it makes me cringe. Nobody in modern times refers to their significant other as "beloved". The moniker reminds me of how people spoke in the dark ages and in horror films where the couple are dead and playing roles as ghosts. Uhhhhhh

Awe man

One of the best series ever... The audio books are amazing... A must read. You will not be disappointed...

The Time Tunnel, Series

Plot. The novels begin with 9/11. Special Forces Major Kyle Mason, newly married, loses his wife - she was on the 105th floor as an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald. He spends the next 7 years in a spiral of deep depression and sadness. Kyle Mason is recruited back into the military to participate in a down-the-rabbit-hole effort to change the past - at Area 51.

How much would the world change if 9/11 had never happened? Does changing the past change the future? If you change the past, are you changing this future or creating a new future? Will you come back to a new future or ...? What if the Battle of the Little Bighorn outcome was different and the Indians were not slaughtered, rather the cavalry? How would America be different? You'll be thinking about these questions long after you finish reading the Time Tunnel books.

Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers was released in December 2019, and Time Tunnel: The Empire was released in January 2020, The novels are about the same length, 9 hours of listening. Based on the end of book 2, there are more books to come. Books published by Time Tunnel Media,

Recommended.

Time Tunnel Series

An amazing sequel to book #1, "The Twin Towers" that is great to read and even better as an audiobook.

Great follow up to the first book!!

Sometimes you never know what you’re going to get in a sequel. I loved the first book and I’m happy to report that I absolutely loved loved loved the second one! This book was so creative and also went in a very different direction but so amazingly fun to read and very exciting and fast-paced. It was very satisfying and you’ll have to read it to know exactly what I’m talking about... but THIS alternate history was extremely satisfying. Lots of character development and evolution of these characters too and plenty of surprises. I very much enjoyed it.

Anti-White racism is still racism!

The time travel parts of this book are great. Richard Todd is obviously woke. Politics is a cesspool. If I wanted a book on politics and his political opinions I would have bought that instead. I'm mad that I gave him my money. I call the philosophy in this book racist, Mr Todd.

drpressing

Just didn't like this especially the USA takeover.. too close to what almost happened ... sorry