- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Matador (2 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906221960
- ISBN-13: 978-1906221966
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,090,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The second book in "The Rathing Chronicles" trilogy, "Kytos - The Dark Beyond" covers events in Britain in 2078. The half-rat half human Rathings rule with an iron fist but have to rely on press-ganged humans to run the country and the economy, which is crumbling due to trade and travel embargoes imposed by the rest of the world. The Rathings are just one of the breeds of hybrid mutants let loose on the world as a result of The Kytos Project - a genetic engineering, hybrid cloning programme almost 60 years earlier. A disillusioned and altruistic Rathing General and a cabal of senior officers plan to overthrow their government and launch an invasion, initially into Europe, and then further afield with a view to conquering the world.By accepting the assistance of an amoral Rathing Senator from the parallel future dimension, the General unknowingly takes the first step to being manipulated by the duplicitous Senator, who has his own dark agenda. With unrest mounting amongst the Rathing military and elite, a showdown between government forces and rebel troops is inevitable. An epic battle eventually takes place between the two factions. The losing General is captured and executed in a barbaric manner. Meanwhile, a young human called Ashok is laying down his own battle plans. He wants to destroy the Rathings before they mature from their embryonic stage, as he holds them responsible for the death of his parents. The only way he can do so is to return to the past through a Time Gate and persuade the scientist who created the clones to stop his experiment.But his plans are dashed at every turn and his determination to stop the creation of the clones puts two friends' lives in mortal danger. And there's the mystery surrounding the assassination of dozens of Rathings. A small mound of residual molecular dust left at each of the crime scenes is a tell-tale sign that the killers may be etheric beings from another dimension. The pressure is on Rathing investigators to catch these shadow souls before they murder more of their kinsfolk. With Rathing and human lives in peril, the challenges Ashok and the General must overcome change each of their lives forever.
About the Author
John de Relya von Kesmark is a retired Company Director and lives by the River Thames near Richmond, Surrey with his wife, Diane. He has worked in the UK, USA and West Africa in shipping, tourism, advertising, the wine trade and marketing consultancy. He has had a number of non-fiction articles published and is currently working on the third Kytos book in The Rathing Chronicles Series. John von Kesmark is a member of The Society of Authors.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Runner Up Spinetinglers Unpublished Manuscript of the Year Award 2007,
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This review is from: Kytos (Rathing Chronicles Trilogy) (The Rathing Chronicles) (Paperback)
The Dark Beyond is a place where the corrupt concepts of greed, hate and revenge reside.
The year is 2078 and Britain is still ruled by the Rathings... a race of genetically modified rats. Several years have passed since Bill and Ashok first visited Rumrunner Cove. Ashok is now a young man and his need for revenge against the Rathings to avenge the death of his parents is all-consuming. He ventures back to the cove with his girlfriend Ellie and Bill in search of the Time Gate. Ashok hopes to travel back in time to find the Scientist, Anderson, who created the Rathings. Ashok is determined to wipe the Rathings out before they have a chance to exist. Meanwhile, the Rathings are oblivious to Ashok's plans because they have other worries that occupy their minds. The trade embargoes imposed on them by the rest of the world are starting to threaten their existence and after fifty years of unification, they are on the brink of Civil War. The second part of the Rathing Chronicles is enticingly filled with political intrigue, bloody murders and ferocious battles laced with a bit of Science Fiction. The Dark Beyond is a much darker tale than its predecessor The Kytos Project. When we first met Bill and Ashok in Kytos, they were just curious boys, but now they are adolescents on the brink of adulthood. Bill has grown into a loyal and zesty young man while Ashok has never recovered from the death of his parents and he is a dark echo of his former self. The content of the novel has matured along with the boys, and although the author has taken a gamble with this choice, I think he has pulled it off with gusto. At no time during the story does the reader yearn to still be looking through the eyes of children. You appreciate the character development and the author's story arc as you view this world through Ashok's maturing eyes. It is a world filled with blackness that only Ashok can save through any means necessary. Ashok's determination for revenge drives the plot forward and we soon realise that there is little hope for Ashok because his hatred will ruin his life and the lives of others. The reader can only shudder at the thought of what is to come next...
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The Dark Beyond,
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This review is from: Kytos (Rathing Chronicles Trilogy) (The Rathing Chronicles) (Paperback)
2078: Britain is a shadowy land governed by Rathings, a new hybrid species created by the union of human and rodent cells. Humans are slave and the British population is starving because of the trade embargo from other countries.
Thats the world described in John von Kesmarks last novel, Kytos The Dark Beyond, second part of The Kytos Project, published in 2006, which introduced Rathings and their realm against human beings. In the novel, the construction of one normal and one parallel present and future dimensions intersecting themselves and sharing time travellers is studied deeply by the author who never gets lost in the labyrinths created by his own mind. The plot itself is made of three stories linked one to the other, the novel resulting very enthralling, well designed and an exemplary piece of science fiction. Ashok, one of the protagonists, a human who considers Rathings responsible for the death of his family, wants to destroy them by going back to time and stopping their creator during his first experiment. Though it may appear that this is just one part of a balanced story, an attentive reader can grab the real importance on this single episode, which is what explains many others, too. This young man, who was present also in the first book of the saga, is the very centre of the story. After reading the book, the most common expectation would be having a third part with Ashok travelling in the future dimension (or from it) to accomplish his mission and engaging in a real battle against the hostile race of the Rathings.
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