Moms is an agent sent back in time to 32,415 BP in southern France to prevent the Shadow from destroying the concept of art. Upon arriving near the Chauvet Cave, Moms discovers that assassins sent by the Shadow have already killed the first artist and anyone who witnessed their artwork. Without the development of art, humans would lose their ability to communicate abstract concepts and emotions, which played a key role in the evolution of human cognition and the development of symbolic thinking. Moms must now find a way to keep the flame of creativity alive and counter the Shadow's plot to alter history while also dealing with the difficulties of traveling back to the prehistoric era.

1. Travel back in time to the south of France,
Pre-History: 6 June 32,415 BP (Before
Present).
The day on which the Shadow tries to
destroy the concept of art.

2. The Same Date.
Six Different Years.
The Time Patrol must simultaneously send an agent back
to each 24 hour bubble to battle the Shadow’s attempt to
change our history. Failure means annihilation of our
timeline.

3. For her 24-hour bubble in time, Moms arrives near
the Chauvet Cave in Southern France.

4. Unfortunately for Moms, she arrives just after a
team of assassins from the Shadow; their mission:
kill the first artist and everyone who has seen what
he does.

5. Without art, how do humans communicate
abstract concepts and emotion?

6. Intellectual breakthroughs in human evolution such as
tool-making were mastered by other hominin species
more than a million years ago. What sets us apart is our
ability to think and plan for the future, and to remember
and learn from the past—what theorists of early human
cognition call “higher order consciousness.”

7. Such sophisticated thinking was a huge competitive
advantage, helping us to cooperate, survive in harsh
environments and colonize new lands. It also opened the
door to imaginary realms, spirit worlds and a host
intellectual and emotional connections that infused our
lives with meaning beyond the basic impulse to survive.

8. And because it enabled symbolic thinking—our ability
to let one thing stand for another—it allowed people to
make visual representations of things that they could
remember and imagine.In that sense, ancient art is a
marker for this cognitive shift: Find early paintings,
particularly figurative representations like animals, and
you’ve found evidence for the modern human mind.

9. As Moms tries to keep the flame of creativity
alive, she faces the effects of traveling back in
time to pre-history, which make her question her
own reality.

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12. Free audiobook shorts on Soundcloud from the
Time Patrol series. Click on box.
Roland’s complete mission from Independence Day.
4 July 1865, at Gettysburg. HERE
Mac’s complete mission from D-Day.
6 June 1944.

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14. New York Times bestselling author, graduate of West Point and
former Green Beret. He’s had over 75 books published, including the
#1 bestselling series Green Berets, Time Patrol, Area 51, and Atlantis.
He’s sold over 5 million books. He was born in the Bronx and traveled
the world. He’s lived on an island off the east coast, an island off the
west coast, in the Rocky Mountains, the Smoky Mountains and other
places, including time in East Asia studying martial arts.
He now lives peacefully with his wife and dogs.
www.bobmayer.com