Pavel Bareš

The Cronos Project

Projekt Kronos Projekt Kronos
Projekt Kronos
Host, 2017, 568 pp
9788075770554
Foreign rights:
Dana Blatná Literary Agency
http://www.dbagency.cz
blatna@dbagency.cz
Goodreads rating
87% (Rated by 745 users)
Fantasy, Science fiction

An original new voice in Czech fantasy fiction. A mature debut with the confident drive of a future classic.

It is 2052, and what little has remained of the world after the war is shrouded in the gloom of a nuclear winter. Attiona City, one of the last outposts of human civilization, is being devoured from the inside by a mysterious epidemic, and social division. As the eminent citizens of the city’s upper part gradually recover from the horrors of war, the less fortunate people of its lower part, known as Downtown, continue to battle these horrors. The drugs business is booming, competing gangs rule the streets, and despairing Downtowners find themselves ever more isolated. The precursors of civil war are raging in the darkness.

Young Downtowner Jason Blake has always wanted to be exactly what he is now – a hero. But heroism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Luco Scarpa has never wished for anything in life but peace and quiet. Now he’s working for the world’s most powerful organization, hunting people like Jason. Neither Jason nor Luca suspect that they are about to become pawns in a game, with the fate of the whole city at stake.

About the author

By day, Pavel Bareš (b. 1994) is a student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University in Prague. By night, he fronts the rock band J!Scream. An avid video gamer and reader of comics, he is also a traveller and a yachtsman. The Cronos Project is his first work of fiction.

Projekt Kronos
Host, 2017, 568 pp
9788075770554
Foreign rights:
Dana Blatná Literary Agency
http://www.dbagency.cz
blatna@dbagency.cz
Goodreads rating
87% (Rated by 745 users)