This novel has a rich ornate tapestry and legacy and yet unusual regarding the original Demon's Gate epic. There are several issues that started with the original story that led to the Demon's Gate series as a Trilogy. These stories were entertaining to read the novels and provide a sense that the characters dealt within a constantly changing future in a complex biased environment. And yet the characters would somehow survive by virtue of their character in a realistic geo-political world wrapped with great doubt. As an author, we use each character to balance their actions within the flow of the main story plot. Some writers claim that characters start taking over the story on their own and you will find that the plot can possibly change with each event. This is absolutely true. You can create an author's character that is nice while in others the characters have human frailties and limitations. One reader mentioned about the main characters in 'The Demon's Gate'. She was surprised where one man seemed to be a real rat but turned out to be a good guy while the nice individual had a nasty background that he preferred secret. The secret was that he took part in genocide while fate seemed to have changed both personalities of these characters completely around. As the author, I did not realize this at all until mentioned to me. I had unconsciously acted using these characters to alter the reader's perceptions regarding the character's predictability. This predictability easily revealed how characters can demonstrate their control of a plot. To add spice to the story, you can include aliens with entirely unexpected social behavioral patterns where you can explore these opportunities in any way you wish to your content. Obviously we do not have a reasonable guidepost to discuss the behavior of aliens. The thrill of any writer, however, is to mesmerize the reader as well as keep the intrigue flowing. It is unfortunate that you would look at the end of a novel and find the plot where the writer has to create some closure only to end the story. That unfortunately for a writer is a tragedy. This story starts with the sudden disappearances of people around the world. Basically there is no logic or obvious reason for these disappearances. If anything, no one has any inkling about why they vanished; however, there is some possible connectivity between some of these individuals. Mars is the center of an ambitious man that has the gift of easily accepting people's faith by virtue of his personality. He used his faith and belief to develop a cult and create a costly facility to propagate the strength of his theological beliefs. The problem is that the man uses a Timer that survived from the War of the Orbital Rings; he lasted for over a century. Timers escaped during the War to use escape pods that went back into time. Some of these included UFOs in Roswell as well as a UFO in the Ukraine, pre-wartime Germany and elsewhere. Here, the Timer provides the religious man with some unusual technology. Clearly every man that achieves success and despite his character and ego, there are sometimes limitations and the common fragilities of each man. While Aram's family look for these missing people from Heaven to Hell, the religious man seeks to have planned disasters to predict and create havoc using these notions to blackmail the realm of Martian citizenry. This becomes the center between the struggle of right versus wrong and leads to unexpected problems when these two diverse paths eventually cross and intersect.

Life is hard especially to survive through the night. The world is full of unjust cruelties and harsh realities. One amongst those insensitive realities is a stranger that lives solely by his own rules. His narrow-minded wisdom lacks conscience and he is strongly motivated to commit a crime. Driven only by his own selfish pleasures, he tries to capture his lost youth. With no respect for understanding personal suffering or legal punishment, his imagery is beyond any bounds despite his responsibilities that anchor his own family. And yet does he commit the perfect crime? If he violates a crime, should he not suffer punishment to pay the consequences of the victim's suffer, their family, or even the scales of the justice system? No, he will survive. Even if he convicts, he has solved the perfect crime despite what happens to him. He will win regardless, even if required to request an insanity plea. Willingly he would pay the price to survive and to win. All is clearly planned. Ironically, however, there may be a force to pay for a far more dangerous outcome. This man travels along an uneasy crossroad guided toward an unexpected path. What is the feeling of the victim and family? Everything in the father's life is successful while achieving career, family, or other values until this unforeseen random event that would burden his life. The stranger did this and changed everything. Admittedly, the victim has his own imperfections and flaws. He lives amongst lost fragments from a malevolent forgotten memory. The crime forces him to remember and relive a distasteful part of his own life. His memory and destiny must force-fit the selfsame missing pieces together regardless of how painful the penalty might be. He too has to alter his own life and his future. Everything will forever change these unexpected events because the stranger lives within the dark side of the tiger...

There are many influences in this world that want but one simple thing. It may sound trivial but that is something that we cannot touch or feel or really know much about. That is, power over each of us. Control is an insatiable hunger borne deep within the human spirit. This is a strange thing to say but it is true. This is a story about many people who played a part in life to understand how individuals try to manipulate you. A mother wants to control her son, a wife wants to control her husband and children, a boss wants to control his subordinates, and a priest may want to control his congregation. Of these, a father's desire to control a son could be the most treacherous of all. Some of these influences are intentionally good as well as bad. This is not to say these people are all evil but some of their purposes may not be as pure as one should assume. We need to look at these considerations very carefully. Alas, we may unfortunately lack the wisdom to fully grasp an unsuitable role model and think that this is normal. I am an Armenian. I had to understand how people acted to me as a child. This was something where people did not act proud about, because of historic events which did not achieve closure resulting in an unjust situation. When you grew up, you accepted this mentality because you were helpless against anything that happened bad to you. Moreover, when you went to work and lost a job, this was a familiar trend that seemed to become karma. Others taking away life and death meant nothing and no one cares. Is this the way society should be or can we change this mentality to offer light against this darkness and step out into the sunlight? The answer is yes but it is a long tortuous journey. When I was in the Army I went to war. Many decades later I served toward the end of my career in four wars at the Pentagon. No, I was not a hero. No, I did not receive acknowledgment for my achievements. I just did the best I could. I did what I was supposed to do. I did not have a clear understanding of what these wars were about although there was a grain of morality in each war. Without a doubt, my belief is that all of these wars were situations that prevented the strong from killing the weak. In my existence, I had to understand my own history as an Armenian. I learned some things about genocide. That is: Genocide has no conscience. Genocide has no morality, it has no memory. Genocide has no ethics or culture, it has very little history. Genocide takes advantage of innocence by cheapening the cost of human life. Basically genocide has no soul and is an evil avenue used to exercise hatred where a minority can be eliminated with some semblance of legality. Genocide killed Armenians, the holocaust killed Jews, Poles, and gypsies. The killing fields of Indochina killed Cambodians. The Rwandan genocide devoured 125,000 people in just over a single weekend, the Serbs killed Bosnians, and the Sudanese have killed Africans in Darfur. Genocide does not discriminate based upon religion; it swallows whole Christian Armenians, European Jews, Cambodian Buddhists, Bosnian Moslems, and those with no religious preference. Genocide knows no color; it devours whites, yellows, or blacks. Genocide is mindless; it devours the educated and uneducated. It thrives on ignorance and if it is not recognized for what it really is will continue to propagate because those that perpetrate it will realize they will not be held responsible for their actions. If it is not stopped, it will continue. Who will be next? Are these new victims the Turkish and Iraqi Kurds who want their own nation or is Africa ready to shed some more blood and tears? With these thoughts, stop for a moment and think about it. Consider how you, as a human being, can interact as a single human being. Now consider your influence in the greater expand of society. Do you have the courage to do this? Who is the crazy man hiding in your basement?

This revised novel is a science fiction classic. Through their 'Middle Kingdom' mindset, the Chinese used betrayal and surrogates to marginalize America's military power. The Chinese quickly advanced in technologies and essentially own the World's resources to include space from the Space Station, surveillance satellites, to fleets of Space Shuttle craft. Something unusual occurs at an obscure station on the far side of the Moon while exploiting discoveries. The Chinese feel they can deal with aliens as the primary intercessor for all of mankind. Although their intentions may be of the highest morality, they are deadly wrong dealing in this situation and it leads where all dreams for mankind may disastrously end...

Those involved in 'The Demon's Gate' once on the far side of the Moon are brought together to resolve a more complex issue that may have no solution. The Fifth Reich in the future is reborn and alive in South America. A 'Timer' or time traveler that was captured for over a century and held hostage since World War II, is still under their control developing alien technologies. The Reich in Uruguay and Argentina is expanding and challenging the Chinese by exploiting these new technologies especially the Nazi Bell, lasers, modern missilery, and other new devices. Part of their political strategy includes refloating the Graf Spee as a memorial for their historical achievements and will lead initially through all of South America expanding their strategy to cover the rest of the world. They gladly challenge the Chinese super power as a stepping-stone. Much damage will exist and cover problems worldwide unless if they are eventually stopped...

In the beginning, there was a man and a woman. Only they flourished with a very thin thread of human spirit that may support what appears to maintain a fragile equilibrium within the world. But now in the end, there could be nothing but devastation. The year is 2050. China is still trying to demonstrate the superiority of its Middle Kingdom mentality to achieve becoming the world's sole super power. Within the Chinese leadership, China would egotistically strive to become the sole instrument of mankind's relevance. But the world is not perfect. There are many demons that prowl over the surface of the Earth spreading their evil. Only the pure of heart or a very rare soul could withstand and defeat this evil. These mischievous imps can play havoc in the human lives that they molest. Moreover, some humans are very prideful that they believe they can set and define the destinies of lesser men, solely based upon their own wishes and their own hidden agendas to create wholesale disaster. One such individual would humble China and possibly all of mankind. Despite this, there are still those that are connected in some spiritual fashion, separated only by the spiral of space and time, where they could achieve greatness in the classical battle of good versus evil. Appearances are deceptive wearing a false but opaque mask never revealing reality or true intentions. Simple human events could induce such karma that can affect those far larger cosmic events, events measured only on a human scale that could include annihilation of everything that we know of or would believe. Will mankind triumph or will mankind falter? And what is the price that would be paid for failure? You can lose your job, your car, your house, and your family. But what if you lose your world? Such decisions may be decided not by consensus but by only a few troubled minds that are lost within the cosmic realm of things real and unreal...

It is the year 2055. So far Valence was living in a happy existence. Life is content with the start of the Valence's family and his own life; he only depends upon his own destiny. A sudden thunderstorm changes his calm life. If he does not change his new destiny, the consequences can create disaster that might impact humanity. The problem reappears about issues concerning the aliens that survived during the "War of the Orbital Rings." Some of these aliens escaped during the war by going back into the past on the Earth; however, their survival meant that these aliens would be trapped living amongst mankind. Why would these events be so crucial? These beings escaped, hid, and lived in specific ethnic and national societies throughout the Earth for numerous decades; some may have gone back a century. Most have been transparent to mankind. However, with others, they created contributions that allowed certain nations to gain advanced technologies to achieve economical or military gain. Valence several years ago exposed just such an alien who developed game-changing technologies while operating in South America. The alien operated as a trapped slave to a rouge group of Nazis for almost a century. These Nazis wanted to erect and build their political ambitions by using asymmetric technologies with devastating weapons. This would recreate their own political identity throughout South America to take advantage of this timer by exploiting and harvesting his intellect. Luckily through Valence, this notion and political ambitions failed and were destroyed. Valence may not have many friends and he needs to protect himself from the "Watchers." Can he fulfill the need for the new challenges to meet humanity and survive mankind? Has he learned any unusual wisdom based upon his search while seeking the simple light? Will he understand what the real danger is if he meets worldwide aliens that might desire to build a hidden empire and create their own political existence? If you do not understand the ambitions of these aliens, they may destroy a thin thread to save humanity. It transcends the triviality of nations such as China, Russia or America to rival amongst each other to become their own nation that leads to evolve into a new creativity. The spiral of space and time to find these dangerous timers may provide some unexpected irony that distorts mankind's wishes.