An apparent time anomaly cuts World War II Europe off from the wartime US and makes an infant America the prize in a scramble between the warring powers. Trapped in Northern Iran, US Army Engineer Jim Edwards flees from both the Germans and Soviets, along with a mysterious Russian woman who may be trying to assassinate Stalin and a man who calls himself "Loki". Is he any more trustworthy than the Norse trickster god he's named after? In a desperate bid to get to Great Britain, Jim finds himself in a treacherous race across Nazi-occupied Europe. His mission? To prevent the Nazis from overrunning Europe, then sending their war machine against an alternate United States still armed with black powder muskets. The freedom of mankind may depend on him. And all the Nazi forces are arrayed against him.