Publisher's Synopsis
The Earth will never be the same... An Eco-fantasy thriller.September 2020. President Price's American multinational Mapture has decided to inaugurate in Naples, in the general amazement, the Hackademy, the first world academy of technological development. This is a new training idea the instructors of which have carefully selected 25 students from all over the world to study subjects such as cryptography, microelectronics, Chinese applied to machine language, hacking, experimental quantum mechanics, internetics... Among these there is also Tomas Di Masi, a sixteen-year-old Neapolitan boy with capacities out of the ordinary, always looking for news about his dead mother since when he was still a baby.The most illustrious physicist and living scientist, the elderly Professor Yasushi Kimura, known as Yaki, who survived the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when he was still in the mother's womb, has always nurtured the desire to have it paid to the United States where however, he studies and works for the Space Agency. With the help of this one he succeeded in realizing his idea, the YAK1 space capsule, which he purposely makes fail and sink into the Mariana Trench from where it penetrates into the earth's crust and takes the Sliver, the fragment of primordial matter dating back to the first instant after the Big Bang.Thanks to thisfragment, Professor Yaki discovers a new immaterial dimension, the Zita Dimension and, becomeintentionally blind to have control of it, he manages to exponentially increase the power of his own mind realizing, together with his icy collaborator Anouk Silami, very powerful machines to implement his own revenge plan.The great nations of the world can do little against the power of Yaki who assumes the role of leader of the United States and puts into effect the program of cleaning of the Earth planet. This also include the hypnotic subjugation of about two billion people, implemented by transferring in the brain of each person, through the smartphones, of a Spark-up, the elementary entity of the Zita Dimension. Suddenly the Earth returns back about 150 years while Professor Yaki, Anouk, Mathias, the man with the face in a tablet, and Nitro, the most evolved entity of the Zita Dimension, present themselves to the world as the Knights of the 'Apocalypse.The reaction of the Earth is entrusted to the boys of the Hackademy, where something strange occurs: the hypnotic power of Yaki does not have effects. Tomas and Christina, a brilliant student coming from New York, discover that they have special powers as a result of their parents' studies.In particular, Tomas gradually becomes Todimax, the dark figure with the face partially covered by the cap, as a modern and aggressive revisitation of Pulcinella, the Neapolitan mask. Todimax is able to compete with Yaki in the parallel dimension from which everything comes thanks to his interactions with characters of the past as Raimondo di Sangro, Frederick II, etc.The events take place in the contradictory city of Naples which, with its flaws and its merits, will in the long run win over its guests from all over the world but above all it will hide to the last the secret of the seemingly incomprehensible choice as venue, of the futuristic Hackademy.The final confrontation reserves chain emotions and a planet Earth that will never be the same again.History, quantum physics, art, technology, maternal love, adolescent condition and all the contradictions of one of the most-discussed cities in the world, are the main theme of the text: respect for planet Earth.
