This volume also expands on the bits of humor in the first book, with Miri adding an interesting perspective on their whole operation and a funny and tender love relationship between Ben and Safa. Miri is a master of observation and manipulation, and she works with full dedication to the success of whatever task she takes on, no matter the eventual body count. She also adds a whole new psychological wrinkle to the gradually congealing team.
She, too, is snatched from the past at moments before her historic death and arrives to coordinate the team and run the operation. In book two we learn this woman is Miri, one of the greatest spymasters of the mid-20th century. At the end of the first book an elderly woman appears at their secret bunker, grabs an apple, and enters the common area simply introducing herself as their new boss. "Mad" Harry Madden, Ben Ryder, and Safa Patel were fully developed characters working together (with Ryder dragging his feet) to train for an important mission in the future. The first book was great, so I was happily surprised that book two was even better.
The three characters are a WWII commando, an insurance investigator who single-handedly stopped a terrorist bombing on the London underground, and a special officer who saved England's prime minister by wiping out terrorists raiding 10 Downing Street by herself. It offered an interesting time travel concept: The creation of a time travel machine seems to have created an apocalyptic future, so three heroic figures are brought out of their timelines at the point of their deaths to alter the outcome. I laid lots of praise on Extracted, the first book in this time travel trilogy.
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