Agent of T.E.R.R.A. Series by Larry Maddock, Jack Owen Jardine

THE ALIEN SHAPE-CHANGER AND THE TIME-TRAVELING SECRET AGENT! Meet Hannibal Fortune, the classic time traveling secret agent for the Temporal Entropy Restructure and Repair Agency (T.E.R.R.A... moreTHE ALIEN SHAPE-CHANGER AND THE TIME-TRAVELING SECRET AGENT! Meet Hannibal Fortune, the classic time traveling secret agent for the Temporal Entropy Restructure and Repair Agency (T.E.R.R.A.) whose James Bondian adventures are back in print for the first time in 30 years! Aided by his sneering, superior, shape-changing, 15-pound fellow agent, Webley (an irascible alien whose comments on Earth people and their customs are incendiary), Hannibal Fortune, granted the special "License to Tamper," tries to foil the plots of Gregor Malik, who seeks to control the future by changing the past. In The Flying Saucer Gambit, Hannibal and Webley travel from the year 2572 to Kansas in the year 1966 to investigate the death of a fellow T.E.R.R.A.'s Resident Agent. Soon they discover he had been killed by the sinister legions of Gregor Malik's E.M.P.I.R.E. to keep him from reporting their new secret weapon, a device that turns people into babbling lunatics. With this weapon, Malik could conquer Earth and changer history - overnight! It was up to Fortune and Webley to foil E.M.P.I.R.E. so that the time-lines would remain intact and Earth unconquered. It was a tough assignment, and Gregor Malik's plans were already far advanced and well protected. But E.M.P.I.R.E. is about to find why Hannibal and his fifteen-pound playmate were ranked the most dangerous of T.E.R.R.A. agents of all. "Speedy time operas, creative." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction... Larry Maddock is the pen name under which science fiction author Jack Owen Jardine wrote the Agent of TERRA series. Cover: Mia Jennings less

When T.E.R.R.A.'s Resident Agent in ancient Crete discovers an inscription written in that language one thousand years before it came into existence, he immediately suspects time-tampering by the minions of EMPIRE. Webley, the sardonic fifteen-pound shape-changing symbiote, and Hannibal Fortune, both Special Agents for the Temporal Energy Restructure and Repair Agency, are sent back to investigate. What they find daunts even this dauntless pair... moreWhen T.E.R.R.A.'s Resident Agent in ancient Crete discovers an inscription written in that language one thousand years before it came into existence, he immediately suspects time-tampering by the minions of EMPIRE. Webley, the sardonic fifteen-pound shape-changing symbiote, and Hannibal Fortune, both Special Agents for the Temporal Energy Restructure and Repair Agency, are sent back to investigate. What they find daunts even this dauntless pair. For, far to the west and ten thousand years before even the semi-legendary Crete arose, lies a thriving civilization ruled by an enigmatic god-king named Kronos. Here, on an Earth still young enough to be molded to whatever destiny its ruler has in mind, Kronos, whoever or whatever he is, has become the creator of a mighty race ... a race poised to stamp out all future humanity by destroying the ancestors of homo sapiens! Fortune, one of the few agents with the coveted License to Tamper, must restore Earth's history – no matter what it takes. Failure means Kronos will change the shape of things to come and shatter Earth's time-line forever! But Webley has a suggestion or two that just might save humanity's bacon … if only he can distract the debonair Fortune from the beautiful young priestess he has just met! less

This civilization must die!Hannibal Fortune's responsibility as a Special Agent of T.E.R.R.A. was to see that Earth's time-line was not changed by the sinister schemes of EMPIRE – but sometimes he hated what he had to do.In the Indus valley of the 15th Century B.C., a great and beautiful civilization flourished. Now it was being invaded by a barbaric army from the west, and history said that the savages must win, that Mohenjo-daro must fall... moreThis civilization must die!Hannibal Fortune's responsibility as a Special Agent of T.E.R.R.A. was to see that Earth's time-line was not changed by the sinister schemes of EMPIRE – but sometimes he hated what he had to do.In the Indus valley of the 15th Century B.C., a great and beautiful civilization flourished. Now it was being invaded by a barbaric army from the west, and history said that the savages must win, that Mohenjo-daro must fall.Fortune had to fight to ensure that bloody conquest… while vicious looters from the far future tampered with the balance of history. less

WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HANNIBAL FORTUNE...? EMPIRE, the evil force of time-criminals, never interfered with history unless they had a good reason, and this time their reason was the most devious of all. EMPIRE was altering Earth's time-line, making Rome lose the Second Punic War, because this tampering was certain to lure T.E.R.R.A.'s top agent, Hannibal Fortune. And EMPIRE wanted Hannibal Fortune, wanted him dead... moreWHAT IF THERE WERE NO HANNIBAL FORTUNE...? EMPIRE, the evil force of time-criminals, never interfered with history unless they had a good reason, and this time their reason was the most devious of all. EMPIRE was altering Earth's time-line, making Rome lose the Second Punic War, because this tampering was certain to lure T.E.R.R.A.'s top agent, Hannibal Fortune. And EMPIRE wanted Hannibal Fortune, wanted him dead. So they trapped him in otherwhen, in a time-period he'd already been in, thus violating the deadly Rule of Doubletime: no man can exist twice at the same time. It meant that Hannibal Fortune simply would not exist at all. Don't miss this classic time travel adventure first published in 1970. Here is what Analog - Science Fact & Fiction said when it first came out: "The is the fourth—and by far the best—of the "Agent of T.E.R.R.A." time-agent series of T.E.R.R.A. (Temporal Entropy Restructure and Repair Agency) is dedicated to keeping the time threads untangled when others try to remake the past and future to their own advantage. "This time something is going wrong in the war between Carthage and Rome. The victors are becoming the vanquished—so Hannibal Fortune and his symbiotic buddy Webley are sent hack to 203 B.C. to find out what is happening and see that it is fixed before the history of Planet Earth—Galactic Federation No. 38—runs wild. He does, he finds the baddies on the scene trying to make Rome lose, and he is suckered into violating some of the basics of time travel, in particular the Rule of Doubletime—no man can exist twice at the same time. "The best time-travel adventures in a long time." less