London—17 September 1940 Summary

A male comes through the net that he set for September 16, 1940. He realizes he dropped in the bottom of a tube station so when he climbs the stairs, he tries to figure out which station it is and the date and time. Two kids he runs into tell him he's at St. Paul's. He finds out form a newspaper that it is the seventeenth so he must have set the net to the wrong date.

He goes out of the station and runs into a woman causing the stuff she's carrying to go everywhere. He wants to see St. Paul's before the sirens go off. He helps her pick up the things, apologizes and then walks away as bombs start to drop and the antiaircraft guns start to shoot. The novel ends without revealing who the male is and...