Colonel McCulloch is head of security at a top secret research station near Washington. He is also taking a great interest in the period of the American Civil War, and has stockpiled a quarter of a million dollars in gold.

Agent Troy Harmon is assigned to investigate McCulloch's behaviour when McCulloch becomes a suspect in two murder cases. But McCulloch has completely disappeared. Harmon discovers that the research station was conducting experiments in time travel, and he realises that McCulloch plans to travel back to the time of the Civil War and alter history.

Harmon must follow McCulloch back - it will mean a one-way trip, and great risk for a black soldier in this period of time.

Dedication: For Josephine Spencer, in fond memory of Kenneth Spencer, and Bill

London: Granada, February 1983, 271pp., ISBN: 0-246-11766-4, hbk.

New York: Tor, February 1983, 315pp., ISBN: 0-523-48554-9, pbk. Cover: Howard Chaykin. Reprinted February 1989 (ISBN: 0-8125-3967-2) and November 1998.

as: Rebel in Time. London: Granada, February 1984, 271pp., ISBN: 0-586-05579-7, pbk. Cover: Richard Clifton-Dey. Reprinted 1986 (ISBN: 0-586-8829-5).

as: Im Süden Nichts Neues. Munich: Bastei-Lubbe, 1984, ISBN: 3-404-22070-6, pbk. Translated by Bodo Baumann. Cover: David B. Mattingly. [German]

Brno: AF 167, 1996, 244pp., ISBN: 80-85384-19-1. Translated by Jiři T. Pelech. [Czech]

Moscow: (Eksmo), 1999, 464pp., ISBN: 5-04-003117-3. [Russian]

The Observer, 20th February 1983. Review by Kelvin Johnston.
"Strangely, you do care about Troy Harmon ... though on the face of it he's just a Sidney Poitier look-alike. It's a variation on Ward Moore's classic Bring the Jubilee, with the polarities reversed ...It's all very predictable, but in a cosy way, and the stock characters are old chums you're prepared to take in your stride."

Science Fiction Chronicle, May 1983. Review by Don D'Ammassa.

The Times, 3rd March 1983 (p.11e). Review by Tom Hutchinson.
"Racist American colonel goes back in time with much gold and gun-blueprints to change the result of the Civil War, pursued by black sergeant Troy Harmon. No surprises, but it's all accomplished without strain and - in Harmon's final decision - a poignancy all the previous pell-mell activity had not prepared us for. Thus: a bonus of emotion."