About the Author: Joaquin De Torres
Joaquin De Torres was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. The third son of immigrant parents from the island of Guam, he graduated from high school at 17, and joined the U.S. Navy where he trained in the field of Naval Intelligence.
He earned his B.S. and M.A. in International Management going to college at night, while serving on active duty during the day. He completed his final tour at the National Security Agency (NSA), and retired from the Navy with 21 years.
His experience with powerful military game changers within the dark labyrinth of the Defense Department, helped create his eclectic collection of heroes and villains, and the dynamic yet dreadful situations they are thrust into.
In the spirit of Michael Crichton, Jules Verne and George Orwell, De Torres sees a world where technology is the elixir and, ultimately, the curse of Mankind when in the wrong hands. His visions of that curse are graphic, visceral and disturbing, forcing his readers to come to grips with his characters' flaws and fears in order for them to survive.
De Torres is an English professor and freelance writer living with his family in Croatia.
Billionaire, visionary, architect and engineer, Dr. Marko Marmilic, has changed the world in unimaginable ways. From his cutting-edge inventions in bio-genetics and cellular rejuvenation, to mechanical design and space-age metallurgy, he’s been labeled “the Nikola Tesla of the modern age.”
But his newest technological breakthrough is, by far, his most ambitious, and most controversial. Marmilic has been commissioned to develop a machine that will change the entire geopolitical landscape in a way no one could possibly envision.
He has developed a land vehicle that can travel at Hypersonic speeds - an alien-looking super cycle called the Sonic One, that can reach Mach 15 by harnessing the Earth’s magnetic fields.
Invisible to radar, exponentially faster than any fighter jet, drone, or missile - and it can do this – without making a sound. Equally impressive is the rider’s revolutionary suit of bio-synthetic armor that can protect a human body from incineration at those speeds.
In his eyes, a fleet of Sonic vehicles could transport food, medical supplies and life-saving equipment to the neediest countries in a matter of minutes, saving hundreds of millions of lives the world over.
But to those financing this TOP SECRET scientific miracle, there is a more insidious objective, and to them there is only one person who will operate the machine - Chris Kordell, a full-torso quadriplegic who has just awoken from a two-year coma.
He has no idea where he is, what happened to him, or why he’s surrounded by strange scientists. Worst still, he has no clue that he’s been chosen to transform Marmilic’s vision of altruistic life into one of the most deadly instruments of war ever imagined.
