Sunday, April 09, 2017
If you like escaping in tunnels rush there
RAY RONAN – SUB C THRILLER SERIES –
BOOK ONE – ESCAPE - 2016
Nathalie, Michael and Rip versus Sam, Gregor and Delinger. A
full fight, both psychic and cosmic, yet contained in a test tube as big as a
distillation laboratory. Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation
and you will see the rich complex and the long tradition of distilling anything
into strong alcohol or whatever chemical distillate that can transform you and
your psychic capabilities.
So let’s enter that strange world of Mad scientists who want
to produce the super warriors who or that or even which will be eternal
self-healing monsters capable of all the military exploits and crimes you can
imagine like killing hundreds of thousands of people in one minute like in
Hiroshima or Nagasaki, or mesmerizing any voting crowd into casting their
ballots for a crazy man, or at least anyone the special psychic agent has
chosen or has been ordered to choose. Science dystopian fiction or dystopian
science fiction or fictional dystopian science. Let’s push the door to that
world and see what so many authors have tried to imagine, like Jules Verne or
H.G. Wells.
A bunch of children are gathered in a special center where
they are supposed to develop some special ability they have in them like being
able to see the future, to see at a distance both in time and space, to manipulate
the minds of people, to read their thoughts, etc. That works till the
organizers find out the children do develop these abilities but that no one can
control the kids and their use of their abilities. In other words, the
dystopian military objective of making them special psi-spying agents if not
special fighting agents cannot be fulfilled. So they are supposed to be all of
them killed by some military force under the commandment of a certain Gregory
for the sake of saving the life and stake of the manager of the project, a certain
Delinger, with the help of some watchers who are psi-spies working for some
special military force.
Of course it sounds like the X-Files. But it could be
different because of the possibility to communicate over vast distances from one
to another of these children. They are nearly all killed, but a few manage to
escape from the institution where they were imprisoned, the Whitemarsh
Orphanage. The children were officially orphans but their disconnection from
their parents was not necessarily kosher: death of the parents or being
abandoned by the parents for adoption or whatever happens to children who do
not officially have parents. That means their disappearance left no trace or
track behind. They had already been erased from all social records. The escapees
then had it easy in the US, which would not be easy in most other developed
countries where a national identity number is attached at birth to all children
with no reference to parents at all. Without that number you cannot simply
survive in Europe for example.
The escapees after several years are alerted by some strange
events that some watchers have finally traced some of them. Nathalie is the first
one and she nearly falls because she did not train her ability for those
escape-years. But with the help of a certain Vanlaar, an old wizard, she
manages to escape from Arizona and to move to Boston where she has been
informed Michael is. The chase is hectic, difficult and desperate. When this
dangerous confrontation of Nathalie with and to Gregor in Boston, Michael and
Nathalie finds out they have to move on, especially since Michael has trained
his ability which is to be able to sense the future, an ability he had used to
make money, not too much, as a trader. And at the end of this first episode he
knows they have to move on.
Where will they go since the watchers, Gregor are Delinger
are on their tracks? How can they try to recuperate one or two more escapees
who may have survived? Hence we end up with a cliffhanger and one special key
plus a set of other not so special keys on the table, not knowing at all what doors
they open. Nathalie has an idea but it is a crazy one.
The only element that is activating our empathy is Michael’s
dog, Rip, a loving big dog who apparently also has, like many dogs due to their
very fine hearing and smelling sense, the ability to sense some coming danger.
But now the drawing of the three is done, we wonder who the gunslinger may be
to bring that triad to a quartet, though the dog should not be part of the
triad and be an extra participant in the adventure. There is in this situation
something Kingian that sounds like many of Stephen King’s themes like the Dark
Tower, Mr. Mercedes or the Firestarter. Will the story go beyond a simple
action saga for teenage videogame addicts? I am sure the following volumes will
bring something interesting. Note the motorbike was used by quite a few, among
others Joe Hill, one of Stephen king’s own sons.
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:59 PM 
