Doing Time - Time Police, Bk 1 Author:Jodi Taylor A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity, temporal tourism went on the rise - highly illegal but highly lucrative, as there would always be nutters who wanted to change history... and the world nearly ended. — And so, the Time Police were formed... an all-powerful, interna... more »tional organisation tasked with keeping the timeline straight. At all costs. The Time Police do not have problems. They have challenges. Their success is legendary. To face down time threats the Time Police despatch their toughest undercover agents. Which is fine until the unthinkable happens. Replacements are needed fast and who better than three young officers who don't even look the part?
Doing Time follows three hapless new Time Police recruits - Jane, Luke and Matthew, arguably the worst recruits in Time Police history - as they try to navigate their first year on the beat. They may be about to graduate, but there's still plenty of time for everything to go wrong. Throw in the Versailles time slip, a covert jump to Ancient Egypt and a race against Time itself and you've got yourself an assignment worthy of Team Weird. It's all going to be fine. Obviously.« less