Written by Alex Scarrow, ‘TimeRiders’ is a series of fiction novels that revolve around three teenagers named Liam O’Conner, Maddy Carter, and Sal Vikram. They’re recruited for a secret agency, just moments before their deaths by a man called Foster. Later they discover that the agency has been created to protect the established set of events throughout history and to fix it if it is tampered with by other time travelers.

Born on 14th February 1966, Alex Scarrow is a British author, who worked as a computer games designer. He started his writing career initially by writing screenplays, but after difficulty entering the business he turned his strongest screenplay into the successful ‘A Thousand Suns' novel. He has since written a number of successful novels, including ‘October Skies’. He has also written a highly successful young adult fiction series, which, according to him, ‘Allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with when designing games.’

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