The protagonist of the series is the captain of the British Army Oswald Bastable . During his service in India, he will get into one of the temples and, during the earthquake that began, escapes through the tunnels. He gets to an alternative planet Earth, and from that moment his adventures in parallel universes begin. Each of the novels is a separate story and takes place on different planets of the Earth at different times. The second novel . Leviathan Walks the Earth . The First World War begins ten years earlier than in our world. Southern England has been bacteriologically attacked, hordes of mutants roam London; New York is destroyed; an African dictator nicknamed the Black Attila invades Europe And only in South Africa, led by the Indian Gandhi, peace and tranquility reign...