Imperium

Science fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced, wry adventure oftime travel and twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales! American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm, and thrustinto what he believes is a truck. Hes relieved to find his captors veryapologetic, and very British that is, until they begin speakingabout nations of which Bayard has never heard. His captors were from Earth, yes.But not his Earth. Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths,each different, where history has taken every possible turn and thereare even more uninhabitable worlds, destroyed by the misuse of cross-timetravel. Bayard discovers that the Earth he has now been thrust into, theEarth of the Imperium, is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earththat has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time and whose ruler is... a parallelversion of Bayard himself! Now Bayards mission is clear: to prevent hisalternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home,the Imperium.