Le dénouement incroyable du précédent épisode laisse croire qu'une civilisation extra-terrestre est réapparue sur Terre dans la région du Kilimandjaro. C'est plus exactement dans la zone du lac Victoria que Remington et Miss Austin concentrent leurs recherches... Mais ils ne sont plus seuls et les Russes les premiers s'empressent de mener leurs propres fouilles. Il s'agit de l'avant-dernier tome de cette histoire passionnante signée Leo et Rodolphe.
Interventions brings the strange occurrences in Africa to a more global scale, showing how the international community have been drawn to the area around Lake Victoria. The consequences of that see the Americans and British crossing paths with the Russians as they struggle to make sense of the curious engraved boxes. The balance of power is in the Russians favour, but while they leave the American Remington tied up Kathy is released and enlisted to help the Russians, much to the annoyance of some of the comrades. Using a map they’ve obtained from a crashed craft they intend to investigate the depths of the lake so have chartered a large boat with a serious looking crew.
Once out on the lake they use a new technology, an aqua-lung, to explore the waters and in doing so come across hundreds of the boxes lying in the lake’s mud, most of which are of an exceptionally large nature. However, they do find one small enough to manage between two of them, lifting it back to ship, but when they get there the crew has turned against them sensing a larger profit.
Back on the shore Remington attempts to escape his guard but in doing so realises the peril of the ship’s occupants and the two of them facilitate a rescue allowing them to discover the mystery of the box, little knowing that a far greater mystery lays right beside them.
I’m still enjoying this series immensely, to the point that I’ve so little time to spare this past month through work that I still dropped everything to read this. We’re not necessarily being fed all the answers, but we are moving toward some sort of explanation as to what’s going on. By setting the story just after the close of WWII there’s an innocence to the characters that makes the science fiction element all the more tangible and wondrous as we attempt to make sense of it all through their eyes rather than our own over-saturated experiences of the genre. Rodolphe and Leo make for an inspiring creative team and, four volumes in, I’m still as intrigued as I was half way through volume one.
Following the events in the previous volume, Aberrations, this fourth volume of Rodolphe and Leo's Kenya deepens the mysteries Katherine Austin and her companions are investigating. Are the flying lights actually aliens? And what are the secrets of the big boxes? The Soviets are also on site, and will this lead to rivalry or temporary alliances?
The series is still very enjoyable, and the plot develops nicely, while still retaining a sense of mystery.
We continue further and the mysteries begin to unravel - a little,if not much.
First, we learn how Irmanius and his team manage to know more about the strange events happening around - from a alien wreckage that shows them the map of lake Victoria and spots marked in it.
Second, the spots on the map point to strange boxes that houses alien monsters. It seems these boxes begin to open and the creatures are let out and it is because of this the alien ships are in place, to wipe out those monsters, destroy evidence of their existence.
Irmanius and his team capture Kathy and Remington, but then they team up to go in search of the mysterious boxes within the lake bed. They retrieve one and free an alien animal from inside it, only to find it missing soon.
A huge box unearths behind them and lets out a Brontosaurus-like alien which is killed by the flying lights.
Almost everyone understand that the alien activity is to ensure that there no evidence of the monsters in the world.