Daimones “On the Gods and the World”

Daimones is not your usual post-apocalyptic story. It has been a disturbing read for many readers, but for a vast larger group of discerning readers it has been quite a discovery.

The trilogy has sold in excess of 10,000 copies to date. Maybe you’ll be one more after this post?

Happy reading

 

Daimones (The Daimones Trilogy Book 1)

ON THE GODS AND THE WORLD

“These things never happened, but they are always.”

—Sallustius

Deorum naturae neque factae sunt; quae enim semper sunt, numquam fiunt: semper vero sunt.

PROLOGUE

WARNINGS

TIME REPORTED LARGE numbers of animals deaths, from thousands of birds found lifeless in two U.S. states in the deep South, to the one hundred thousand dead fish in arid locations such Arkansas.

Strange deaths had caused alarm among naturalists and environ- mentalists in all nations. Birds fell dead from the sky. Fish washed up on shores and rivers across the whole planet. People, however, had other things to care and worry about. Mainstream media focused on economic crises, financial scandals, sovereign states at risk of defaulting in the Euro zone, the Arab Spring, and the global war on terror.

The link was there. We were the sapient species on earth, clever enough to connect the dots no matter how far apart they were. We should have done our job to connect them. But we were too busy, too preoccupied with other facts to ask ourselves: What the hell is happening?

Nature’s red flags went unnoticed and animals—scores of them— kept dying. We kept living our own lives…

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