The Continuum Chronicles: Of Death and Destiny

About the Book

Atlantis is at the early stage of its development. A ruthless and devious baron hires a group of assassins to murder the royal family. The baron then declares himself Emperor. In turn the assassins are betrayed and killed by the new Emperor’s soldiers. They find themselves in the deepest depths of Hell, as a result of a curse by a witch they murdered.

The Empress, who has escaped the slaughter of the royal family, facilitates her son’s escape. A mysterious wise man known as the Monitor takes the prince under his care. Under the Monitor’s skilful tutorage the prince acquires great skills and they have many adventures together, in the dangerous environment around them.

The Monitor is from a distant world, in another galaxy and relates the story of the development of his planet, Galenos. The planet has developed much like earth and the Monitor describes how it confronted issues like global warming, economic turbulence and conflict between the various nations. This conflict eventually resulted in global nuclear war, where the planet’s population is reduced from 8 to less than 2 billion people.

A star ship appears over Galenos, crewed by a species known as the Watchers. They assist the planet recover from the war and forge a united, golden future. The Watchers then leave Galenos and eventually take up orbit around the Earth. Due to severe star ship malfunction, exacerbated when travelling through an unstable worm hole in space, they are responsible for the destruction of the dinosaurs.

About the Author

David resides in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia with his wife of 48-years, Mary. He settled with his wife in Brisbane, after emigrating from England to take up a position with a large engineering firm. They had three sons, the eldest of whom, a young doctor, was tragically killed in an aeroplane accident. Their other two sons are living away from Brisbane. For a number of years David was employed as a design engineer. He then decided to move into the business consultancy field. David operated in this field and as a Factory Manager, until he retired. During his time as Factory Manager and business consultant David was highly successful in establishing participative management concepts, including self-managed teams. These concepts had the specific aims of realizing individual worker potential, improving motivation and increasing company profitability and quality of output. David has also lectured on a part-basis at colleges of further education in England and Australia and at the Queensland University of Technology. From an early age David has been subject to diverse paranormal experiences. This included premonitions of future events that always came to pass. He is an avid science fiction fan and the local newspaper described him as a budding H. G. Welles, when reviewing one of his stories in the school magazine.