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The date: September 10, 2001. Kyle Mason, an Army Special Forces Major, is honeymooning in SoHo with his newly wed bride. When his wife ducks out of their hotel room for coffee and a cigarette, Kyle is shocked when a strange visitor appears, enlisting Kyle’s help to prevent an unimaginable disaster that will take his bride’s life in the twin towers the following morning.

Described as "An action-packed time-travel tale..." by Kirkus Reviews, “Time Tunnel: The Towers” weaves in history and science to translate fantastic concepts like time travel into plausible reality.

Reviews:

"Todd grippingly conjures a what-if time-travel scenario that’s unusually believable.” — Kirkus

"As the main characters carry out their exciting mission and remake history, readers will find it intensely satisfying, and the cliffhanger ending promises new thrills to come.” — Kirkus

"A compelling premise that’s strengthened by solid scientific explanations, well-rounded characters, and nail-biting suspense.” — Kirkus

"★★★★★ Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers is a wonderful piece of work with great actions scenes and a fantastic storyline that would be enjoyed by a wide audience."— Manhattan Book Review

"★★★★★ The integration of the time travel storyline with the real events that happened on that day are seamless. If I didn’t know better, I would think this could have really happened."— Manhattan Book Review

"★★★★★ (4.5) The Twin Towers is a compelling, fascinating read that ends with the reader anxious for the sequel.” — San Francisco Book Review

“★★★★★ (4.5)...the reader is kept hooked to the very end where there’s a great cliffhanger." — San Francisco Book Review

"★★★★★ Richard Todd does a great job of hooking the reader and making them commiserate with the characters who are very well developed and multidimensional. If you like time travel, then Richard Todd's Time Tunnel series is definitely the book for you." — Seattle Book Review

"★★★★★ Twin Towers is recommended to those who enjoy pure action with romance, aliens, vengeance, and having the ability to change the past. In this first book of the Time Tunnel series, we are left with a cliffhanger, so hurry and finish this one to continue on to Time Tunnel: The Empire.” — Tulsa Book Review

September 11, 2001. Padma Mahajan mourns the loss of her newlywed husband, Major Kyle Mason, killed while defeating terrorists from crashing American 11 into the World Trade Center. As she watches harrowing videos on TV of American 11 missing the North Tower by mere feet, a mysterious visitor enters her apartment. possessing stunning knowledge about the future. Leveraging this information, Padma becomes the world’s wealthiest person and de facto “Empress of America” until a new authoritarian challenges her rule and forces her and the visitor from the future to escape into the past – through the Time Tunnel.

An accident in the Time Tunnel throws the couple hopelessly off course. Lost in time, they use their knowledge of the future to change the outcome of one of history’s most heinous massacres. As they attempt to change the past, they are hunted by Colonel Annika Wise, who has orders to kill the time traveling duo.

Time Tunnel: The Empire is the thrilling sequel to Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers, a daring suspense story in which history is changed for better…and worse.

Reviews:

"★★★★★ Time Tunnel: The Empire was a crazy good adventure that I would have never expected from this sci-fi style book. It is a must-read that I could hardly put down.” — Manhattan Book Review

“★★★★...eerie similarities to our current political climate cannot be denied….This book also ends on a great cliffhanger, leaving the reader wanting much more.”  — San Francisco Book Review

"In this second installment of a series, Todd (Time Tunnel: The Twin Towers, 2019) continues exploring the intriguing possibilities of time travel, backing up his speculations with well-researched history and believable science. Though adept at setting up exciting, tense confrontations, the author is also a thoughtful writer, and his characters are appropriately vulnerable, though Padma is hailed as the messiah of Lakota prophecy and Kyle has modern weaponry. Todd’s Lakota camp and the town of Deadwood come vividly alive with well-chosen, telling details such as the checkerboard that sits atop a general store’s cracker barrel. The cliffhanger ending will leave readers eager for the next volume.”  — Kirkus

"★★★★★ Just like the first novel in the series The Twin Towers, The Empire is full of action, intrigue, and suspense. Richard Todd does a fantastic job of retelling historical events, which are brilliantly researched.” — Seattle Book Review

"★★★★★ Relationships are tested in this story; the only way to know how you truly feel about someone is to throw them in a situation together for which they are totally unprepared. The reader is able to delve deeper into the feelings of the characters and grasp a better understanding for the motivation of their actions. As in Twin Towers, there is action galore, and The Empire includes another story from history that originally ended badly, but now occurs in a way we would have liked for it to have played out. The ending was a complete shock, with another phase in the Time Tunnel series coming at a later date.” — Tulsa Book Review

Richard Todd is a writer, inventor, and entrepreneur.

As a contributor to the Huffington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle, he has interviewed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Virgin Group founder and chairman Sir Richard Branson, economist and EU advisor Jeremy Rifkin, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Jane Smiley, astrophysicist Brian Greene, IBM “Watson” supercomputer team leader David Ferrucci, and “Who Killed the Electric Car’s” Chelsea Sexton.

Richard holds four patents in the field of information technology. Like Michael Crichton’s great techno-thrillers, Richard weaves real life science into the Time Tunnel series to translate fantastic concepts like time travel into plausible reality.

Richard lives on a horse ranch in California with his beautiful wife Laura and the many rescue animals under their care. In his not-so-abundant spare time, he is a competitive horseback rider.