In this book, Bobby and Spader flume to First Earth (1937). They meet the Traveler from First Earth who is Vincent (more commonly called Gunny) Van Dyke. The gangster mob lord, Winn Farrow, is trying to get even with Maximillian Rose, another mob lord who worked with Farrow during the Prohibition. The pair amassed a large fortune selling illegal booze, but Rose spent his money wisely, while Farrow didn't. When the Prohibition ended, Farrow was broke from spending so much of his money. Rose, on the other hand, was very wealthy, much to the jealousy of Farrow. Rose eventually had made a very large criminal empire, so he began working with the Nazi party in Germany. They payed him to give them intelligence about many things. As Bobby finds out, the Hindenburg is carrying an extremely large pa