Children of the Universe

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Product Description Grisly, isolated deaths traumatize the populace of mid-western and southern states. Prodigy NSA consultant Devlin Conner struggles to demystify and defuse a growing public mania of biological terrorism or new-strain epidemic. As he investigates the most recent fatality, he verifies a restaurant lobby surveillance video displaying the impossible a vanishing man, taunting him. Compelled to refer to the deaths as murders, he was stumped. No known weapon or technology could effect the singular, targeted tissue devastation he had observed. Together with his partner Carmel Worthington and the sentient cyber-entity Barbie whom Devlin designed and raised the exploration for solutions and the meaning of the curious symboled artifacts left at each scene hurl them across the galaxy, chasing a madman who claims to be the direct blood descendent of Jesus Christ. A super-evolved human, the psychotic Stark Luna is obsessed with destroying religion on Earth. He believes religion is the primary bulwark to Homo Sapiens hastened evolution. He draws Devlin into a biblically apocryphal scheme to rid Earth of worshippers and believers. In the process, Devlin encounters his own concealed past and evolutionary roots. He discovers the Evolution of life in the Universe, and its children his brethren. About the Author Oliver B. Williams' career resembles a web rather than a path. His interests have spanned the spectrum of professional extremes: TV repairman, technical documentation writer, microelectronics engineer and manager, inventor, statistician, flight instructor, Lear Jet charter pilot, market research analyst, Internet entrepreneur, community mental health counselor, college professor, clinical and research psychologist, and fiction writer. A bachelor's degree in physics, a masters in counseling psychology and statistics, and a doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Clinical Psychology, he claims one constant thread in what would appear as a morass of career dissonance: writing. Technical, research, essays, non-fiction, fiction he has never abandoned his love of writing explaining, entertaining, motivating. Life contains too many challenges, so many things to learn and experience. And it's too short. How one could settle on a job for thirty years, then retire? I don't know. I enjoy everything I do; I've enjoyed everything I've done. I've finished what I've started, and I have no regrets. First and foremost in my life, I'm a father and a husband. I'm happily married for over seventeen years, and I have four wonderful and intelligent children. I grew up in three African-American urban ghettos: Los Angeles, Detroit, and Omaha. I attribute my multiple interests, careers, education, and social/race experiences with providing me a unique perspective and coping style which helped me survive in a dichotomous and sometimes irrational world. I've sought to pass on my experiences to my children, and hopefully entertain maybe enlighten a few readers with the same.

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