![]() ![]() ![]() Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet are threatened by the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood. He uses the machine to return to the year 1805. Inside, he finds a time machine and a desperate plea for help from the captain. One day Nick discovers an old sea chest, left for him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion. Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boat wolf packs that are circling the islands. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick of Time is the first young reader's book written by bestselling author Ted Bell.In the grand tradition of epic novels like Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island comes a wondrous tale of time travel, adventure, and riches, in which twelve-year-old Nick McIver sets out to become "the hero of his own life."The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. ![]()
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