SENTINEL - the adventure

SENTINEL Descendants in Time is a gripping science fiction adventure set more than 1900 years from the present day in a rich pastoral region of our own future Earth. It's the story of a young man named Beni who finds himself in the terrifying situation of being forced to enter the most dangerous tomb in a nearby tomb-field left behind by the long-gone Tastan civilization.

During his adolescence, Beni was brave and reckless enough to risk entering a few of the less dangerous Tastan tombs. He found he had a knack for getting in and out again unharmed, and, like many kids his age, for a while even dreamed of becoming a great tomb-robber like the famous Ramirez.

But Beni's knack has been turned against him. There are 85 tombs in the Tastan tomb-field close to the village where Beni lives. Now Doba, a ruthless black-marketeer from a nearby town, has kidnapped Beni's younger sister Carrie, and promises to release her unharmed only if Beni brings back something valuable from the most dangerous Tastan tomb of all: the terrifying Tomb 35.

SENTINEL begins with Beni outside this tomb desperately trying to persuade Doba to change his mind. He reminds the overbearing and stubborn crime lord that the Tastan tombs have little by way of treasure in the conventional sense and few easily removable artifacts. The amazing technology of the ancient Tastans is simply beyond the best minds of Beni's day, completely inaccessible to modern scientists and souvenir hunters. He also reminds the insensitive Doba that even the great Ramirez was barely able to make it out of Tomb 35 with his life.