The Encryption Game

Dr. Scott James Thriller #4

by Glenn Shepard

A secret organization is trying to steal nuclear warheads from America. Only Dr. Scott James can stop them. But how to break their codes? Every communication is a cipher and every cipher is a riddle. The CIA and NSA are powerless to stop the plot. As the day of reckoning draws near, Dr. Scott James and his team need a breakthrough. Their break comes in the most unlikely of places, and it leads the good doctor on his most dangerous adventure yet. Praise for The Missile Game, Book #1 of the Dr. Scott James series “Could be developed into an entire season of 24. It's that fast, it's that engrossing." Men Reading Books Praise for The Zombie Game, Book #2 "Twists, turns, and tons of action." Ben Lieberman, author of The Carnage Account Praise for The Ebola Game, Book #3 "A wild ride that just keeps coming at you." John Haskett, author of The Lost Raft

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 9, 2016

About the author

Dr. Glenn Shepard was raised on a farm in eastern Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia on an academic scholarship and majored in psychology. As an undergraduate, he lettered in wrestling for three years in a row. Then, he went on to become the only person in UVA history to letter in wrestling again in his sophomore year in medical school.

After completion of med school at UVA, he went to Vanderbilt where he completed his residency in general and cardiovascular surgery. He spent two years in the Army at the Ft. Gordon Army Hospital in Augusta, Georgia and The Second Surgical Hospital in An Khe, Vietnam. While in Vietnam, he wrote his first work of fiction, Surge, which is on his back burner of works to dig out of the attic and publish, with major revisions, in the future.

For 28 years, he founded and directed The Peninsula Cranio-Facial deformities clinic that was staffed by volunteer medical, dental, social services, psychology, and speech pathology experts. The group treated over five hundred patients with cleft lips and palates, as well as a variety of deformities of the face and hand.

After the massive earthquake in Haiti in January, 2010, Dr. Shepard emerged from retirement and joined the Notre Dame Hospital unit in Leogane, Haiti for a 10 day rotation. His empathy for the people and their problems as well as his admiration for the contributions of time and talent from medical personnel from all over the world greatly inspired his second novel, Relief Aid, Haiti.

Not For Profit, Dr. Shepard's first thriller, follows plastic surgeon Dr. Scott James as he tries to clear his name of two murders of which he's been falsely accused. As James hunts down the evidence that might free him, he faces a barrage of threats to his life and liberty—and makes one chilling discovery after another.