Bear has a happy life, experimenting on plants and learning botany. Apparently, the Agency is truly incapable of hiding any information from anyone, and Bear is no longer safe in retirement.
The team is older. People have moved on. Bear is assigned to lead a team of young recruits. Society is in shambles. Aliens walk in plain sight. The rich are super rich, while the poor basically have nothing.
The end game is rebels are organizing. The only thing they want is a fair shake. Actual rights. Bear agrees with them on many levels. He feels for them, but he is a government agent in every way and not a rebel.
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