Joshua has a life. He's attending college. He's in love. A secret crime fighting agency brings him into their fold and gives him a new name, Bear.
A world opens up with aliens, and drugs that can control the minds of the strongest men. They want Bear to find the leader of the biggest crime syndicate on Earth, Centurian. They make him point on missions, and it makes him feel like he's doing the right thing.
Earth will be subjugated by interstellar law if things descend into more anarchy. We've always had some anarchy, but Centurian is trying to push us over the edge so the aliens can legally take our sovereignty.
Earth is a backwater planet and doesn't even get a voice on the Council of Worlds.
In a perfect world, Bear is a secret agent, but reality is he needs to be bulletproof.
I've known Geoffrey for many years. He is a gifted, sometimes evil, gamer, and has been since youth. He kicked butt in Axis&Allies and Titan I've heard.
His dad wrote software for the military, so it made sense for Geoffrey to get me into it. His first piece of software? A Chemical Weapons Attack Simulator for the USAF. Since then, he's built websites professionally and browser-based multiplayer kingdom games.
That history perhaps explains the action-adventure war focus of much of Geoffrey's writing. In 2003, Juxta, Magi was his first attempt at epic fantasy. The muse demanded a sci-fi war book, so he wrote R.A.E.C.E. Genesis.
Often a strong central character is introduced that must learn and make friends to meet an urgent challenge. Growth, determination, loyalty are common themes set against a fantasy, future or apocalyptic dystopia. The novels are all fast paced and include wonderful dry and flip humor.
Geoffrey is thankful for writing instructors Ed Davis and Tim Waggoner at Sinclair Community College. For five years, he ran an eZine, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind. He keeps a secret box stashed away with a number of print magazines he's in.
Geoffrey does more gardening now. Sunshine is his medicine. He wants a competitive yard. His Kung Pao chicken recipe is perfect in a scorch the earth way. He grows fresh legumes.
I know the Muse still has plans for Geoffrey.
Brian L Hunter Business Guy, Photographer, Friend and Defeated Enemy