When Rion and Sena, two refugees frrom a doomed planet travel across the galaxy to Earth to save their species from extinction, they land at sea and are separated in a hurricane. He washes up on the coast of Georgia. Sena is rescued at sea and taken to Australia. Pursued by an obsessed NASA official, The FBI and foreign intelligence services, They find each other, evade and escape capture. It's a scifi story, an adventure story, a love story and a story about how the first human contact with extraterrestrial intelligent life changes everyone involved.
Ed Ross is President EWRoss International, a global consulting company. His previous positions include Principal Director, Security Cooperation Operations in the Defense Security Cooperation Agency; Acting Deputy Assistant Sec-retary of Defense for POW/ MIA Affairs; and Senior Director for China and Taiwan, in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. His military service includes two tours of duty in Vietnam as an artillery observer with the 9th Inf Division and a mil intel detachment commander with the 525th MI Group; Chief, Counterespionage-Counter-intelligence, 500th MI Group; a senior political-military analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency; and Asst. Army Attaché to the People's Republic of China. Ed has traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. He is the author of numerous professional articles on national security issues.
In every government bureaucracy there's at least one obsessed executive. When that bureaucracy is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) the obsession can be about anything in the Universe. James Murdock's obsession is proving intelligent life exists on other planets. When he believes intelligent beings from another planet have arrived on Earth, he 's willing to give up everything to encounter it.
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The Transplants
James Murdock knew about objects in space as well as anybody. He was scientifically gifted; and since childhood had fantasized about becoming an astronaut and traveling to the Moon, Mars and the stars. In college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he took mostly those courses that would help him become an astronaut, graduating with honors with a degree in physics. He obtained his master’s degree in astrophysics from Princeton. He applied to NASA to become an astronaut in his second year. His grades were straight As, and his physical conditioning was impressive. When NASA doctors gave him a medical exam, however, they discovered an inner-ear problem, the result of a childhood illness, that caused him to have random, mild vertigo attacks, and he washed out of the program. The attacks were rare, and James had convinced himself they wouldn’t have been a problem. Nevertheless, they disqualified him. NASA was impressed with James, however, and they offered him a desk job. He quickly won promotions, and after only eight years he became the Director of the Deep Space Network at the JPL, run by the University of California for NASA. James was an outstanding employee, but he never got over his desire to be an astronaut; and he never got over his belief that man wasn’t alone in the Universe. This incident was just what he had been waiting for.
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