Ripping Time

Settle Back for a Hot One:
IT"S RIPPING TIME

When terrorists gun down Jenna Caddrick's fiancee, the only daughter of Senator John Caddrick is trapped in a desperate struggle to stay alive. With a pack of killers on her trail, Jenna plunges through Shangri-La Station's time touring gates-and lands in London of 1888, just in time to meet Jack the Ripper.

And Skeeter Jackson, newly reformed con artist, finds himself caught up in the biggest mystery of the century. All Skeeter has to do is find the Senator's missing daughter, track down lanira Cassandra's kidnappers, stop a cult of killers and survive Ripping Time ...

Praise for Time Scout:

"Engaging, fast moving, historically literate, and filled with Asprin's expertise on the techniques and philosophy of personal combat, this is first-class action sf." --Booklist

"The characters ... are appealing and their adventures exciting and plausible." --Science Fiction Chronicle

Paperback

Cover art by Gary Ruddell

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, May 2000

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Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-671-57867-7

Copyright © 2000 by Bill Fawcett & Associates

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