OFFWORLDER

About the Book

Cooper Ridley was dead.  At least until Azrnoth-zin turned his ship around and brought Ridley’s body aboard his spacecraft.  In a desperate act to save Ridley’s life, Azrnoth-zin goes against all Delfinian tenets of first contact and places him in a neural reorganization chamber.

Now, many light years from his home world, Ridley comes face to face with the Trochinids, a malevolent alien force moving through the systems, consuming everything in their path.  He must use all of his newfound knowledge, along with some good old-fashioned Earth-borne skills to survive the Trochinids, the Delfinian Water Council, the exotic and beautiful squadron commander Mara-jul, and a bunch of displaced aliens who just don’t like the way he looks.

Maybe staying dead wasn’t such a bad idea.

About the Author

John R. Gentile is a marine mammal naturalist and researcher, physical therapist, sea kayaker, SCUBA Divemaster, and nature photographer.  John, with his marine biologist wife, Katie Iverson, has been conducting a photo-identification study of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the upper Gulf of California since 1997.  To date they have well over 100 dolphins identified as permanent or part-time residents of the waters around Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico.

John is currently putting the finishing touches to Siren’s Song: Book III of the SOFAR Trilogy, due to be released in the Spring of 2006, as well as working on a screenplay revolving around Arizona-Mexico border issues.

John and Katie live in Tucson, Arizona with Marley, a chow with a sense of humor.