Time Salvager a fast-paced time travel adventure from Wesley Chu the award-winning author of The Lives of TaoConvicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no ones hero In his time Earth is a toxic abandoned world and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive eking out a fragile doomed existence among the other planets and their moons Those responsible for delaying humanitys demise believe time travel holds the key and they have identified James troubled though he is as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history xA James is a chronman undertaking missions into Earths past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline The laws governing use of time travel are absolute break any one of them and one way or another your life is over Most chronmen never reach old age the stress of each jump through time compounded by the risk to themselves and to the future means that many chronmen rapidly reach their breaking point and James Griffin-Mars is nearing his On a final mission that is to secure his retirement James meets Elise Kim an intriguing scientist from a previous century who is fated to die during the destruction of an oceanic rig Against his training and his common sense and in violation of the chronmens highest law James brings Elise back to the future with him saving her life but turning them both into fugitives Remaining free means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth somehow finding allies and perhaps discovering what hope may yet remain for humanitys home world.
