Zak's Time Camera by Terence Lee

Zak Endecott is a mathematical whiz into computers from Texas who discovers a way to penetrate the time curtain using a laser beamed into the ether from a secretly modified video camera. He cannot look forward, only back, and there is no audio. Initially, he catches Jack the Ripper on video, then with his newly found girlfriend, Lucy Bart, records the Mutiny on the Bounty, all as part of a money-making venture. But then things change. Zak and Lucy record Leon Trotsky present at the murder of Rasputin, “the mad monk”- a historical anachronism. They then record the mysterious founder of the Bavarian “Illuminati,” Adam Weishaupt, conferring with Benjamin Franklin at the Palace of Versailles. They do not know yet that they have stumbled onto the shadowy AA, the organization founded by Weishaupt, which calls the shots in the Western World from an address in Washington, DC. On the other side of the coin is the Brotherhood, an equally shadowy organization founded in Egypt dedicated to the destruction of the West. Accompanied by Eric, a British historian, and assassin employed by AA to run down and destroy the leadership of the Brotherhood, Zak and Lucy are pressed into service by their country to use the camera to expose the Brotherhood. The Vatican is planning something big in August-the revelation of a hitherto missing document concerning the third secret revealed at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 to three peasant children. But the Brotherhood is planning something even bigger. While Zak, Lucy, and Eric are trying to stop the Brotherhood, AA makes a secret decision that will affect them. Instead, they are asked by AA to video the greatest event in history, which will be flashed around the world at the same time the pope makes his announcement in August. Time is running out, and they are still unable to discover the Brotherhood’s plan ……..