Of Black Holes and Prophets

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What if the man you just arrested for wandering the Mojave Desert wasn't insane but a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>time traveller from the center of the galaxy</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Highway patrol officer </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alex Hays</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> thinks it's just another hot July afternoon in 2010. Then he picks up a strange man in futuristic </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>pajamas</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> claiming he's from the year 2170. Hours later the man vanishes without a trace during a violent desert storm leaving Alex and a brilliant young nurse </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sally Moreno</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> with only questions.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From that moment on Alex's life takes an unexpected turn one that will lead him from the highways of California to the cutting edge of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>space science at Stanford</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and into a destiny far bigger than either he or Sally could imagine.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If you love </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Michael Crichton's realism</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>C.S. Lewis's moral depth</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Arthur C. Clarke's sense of cosmic wonder</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> you'll be hooked by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Of Black Holes and Prophets.</strong></p>