Divergence

Book One of Divergence

Everything I had believed in was a lie. And now it was my destiny to preside over the genocide of four billion human beings.

‘What’s that?’ I demanded, pointing at the objects floating on the edge of the atmosphere, high above our heads.

‘It’s nothing, sir,’ he insisted, his formerly amiable voice now cold. ‘There’s nothing there.’

A day that started out with great hope ended up as the start of a descent into hell. For Senior Academician Alex Zinoviev, the hope of a glorious career turned overnight into a nightmare of epic proportions as he found himself exiled to the distant and dismal Project Shambhala.

But is all as it seems? As the human Diaspora continues to monitor the grim reality of Divergence, why are there so many awkward questions that don’t seem to have answers?

Alex continually tries to remind himself that he doesn’t care, and also finds himself highly distracted by Khaliya El-Nasri, his Project Manager. But, the questions keep coming. And then the Project finds something hidden deep in a vast lake on the planet below. Something terrible that is going to reveal to Alex that everything he has believed in his whole life has been nothing more than a lie.

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Book Two of Divergence

‘Every night when I close my eyes I feel like I’m just falling apart, separating into a million pieces.’

'You really don't understand, do you? Every government in the Diaspora is part of this conspiracy. There is no-one who'll even listen to you. There's nowhere you can hide, nowhere to run to. If you go back, you're signing your own death warrants.'

200 million years in the past, and with their nuclear reactors drained, the crew of the Leonid Brezhnev, led by former Senior Academician Alex Zinoviev, and Dr Khaliyah El-Nasri, are hoping for some breathing space and the chance to work out what to do next. But, a grim discovery on the surface of the Earth changes all of that. As they explore the wreck of a long-crashed spaceship, they discover something even more sinister and disturbing, something that links the late Triassic era inexplicably to their own time.

And then the future reaches out to them. And it doesn’t just reach, it grasps, and the crew find themselves facing a conspiracy that makes Project Shambhala look almost innocuous.

But what can they do? Trapped, with no hope of escape, they have to try to find some way to defeat the forces of darkness that surround them at every turn.

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The third and final part of the Divergence trilogy. 

Having witnessed the destruction of Earth in their own time, and then triggered the extinction event that signalled the end of the Triassic Era, 200 million years ago, the crew of the Leonid Brezhnev find themselves faced with only one option: a short trip to Mars. Known as Al-Marrikh in Khaliyah's language, the planet would appear to be teeming with life. And none of it human. But, the Leonid Brezhnev is dead in the water without access to isotopes, and there seems little choice, other than to begin mining operations on Jurassic Earth, waiting for the inevitable Rossiyan reprisals for the destruction of their hidden experiment. 

But, Mars is not at all what they expected, and things take a turn for the worse when they encounter an all-too familiar enemy.

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