The Return of TAU

"- Star Trek series level...Robert Ludlum-sized narrative" - Kirkus ReviewsShaken by the disappearance of their bodies, a young dad is at a loss to find his family. Only an alien friend knows where they are, Lord TAU of the Kronogons, a powerful, shape-shifting creature whose whole being is to fight time, the very meaning of Kronogon. His people have taken them, he tells Jonathan, the father, but why? To bring them back to life, he says.Jonathan can't believe what TAU is saying. With no other course but to follow the Kronogon, he and his friends set out on a blind journey with TAU as their Sherpa in a Tolkien-like journey. Just when he thinks he has found his family, he loses them again, but this time to another alien species, the Greys of Nardomon, bent on transforming all intelligent life into themselves.What do these aliens want with dead Humans? Jonathan asks. TAU suspects the worst.An unlikely pairing of two fishermen and a beautiful young woman/half-angel accompany Jonathan and TAU. To get back to heaven, Angelina must convert her hatred of Humans into helping Jonathan. Meanwhile, his human friends are too paralyzed with the terror of the Greys to do much. Jonathan must stand alone against a resolute enemy as the odds unwind slowly against him - even with the return of TAU."The two alien races may scheme like Cold War antagonists, but they have enough imaginative touches and exotic cultural details to merit genre respect, say on a Star Trek series level... Angelina registers less as a channel for holy thoughts...than as a superhero type...The author is adept at keeping things moving and throwing cinematic-level twists into the Robert Ludlum-sized narrative to maintain reader interest...While it's the first installment in a series, (entitled "Fortress of Time.") this volume wraps up its story threads more neatly than other SF sagas, not leaving readers stranded in a ninth circle of cliffhanger hell. Aliens, angels and an action-hero dad star in a rousing genre mishmash that plays out better than it sounds." - Kirkus Reviews