The Dawn of Reason and From the Reliquary of Job: Ancient Beacon, #1

By Dan Gallagher

What did "the Fall" in Genesis really look like, start to finish? Why are the trees of knowledge and of Life connected? Experience the dramatization of these as never before imagined! Then, follow Dr. Bart Lloyd and Dr. Simone Kairaba into the northwest desert of Saudi Arabia, to discover the altar of Job... and Lloyd's death and revival. What did he bring back--physically--from the dead, from his freedom to travel back in time and from his encounter with... Oh, I think you'd rather be surprised!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dan Gallagher
• Release date: Apr 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386201915

Dan Gallagher

A Writing Style Shaped by Life-experiences: As the youngest of eight in a Catholic working class family; as a soldier, scholar, family man, advisor and adventurer, Dan developed a vivid, hard-hitting style: He has trekked volcanoes, deserts, swamps; trudged Appalachian, Arizonan and Venezuelan heights & gorges. He has explored exotic locations like Macau, Hong Kong, the Everglades, Bayous, Mexico's Baja? even New Jersey! Attacked by a charging bear, Dan killed it at fourteen feet, evaded a northern Canada wolf-pack and an enraged moose. He's parachuted, been in a knife fight and numerous other life-threatening tangles. Though he's not seen combat, Dan held command of Mechanized Infantrymen in live-fire assaults, ambushes and defenses in Germany & the U.S.. He has lived in Rhode Island, Alexandria & Williamsburg, VA and North Carolina. Other personal experiences inform Dan's writing style. He knows what faith, race and age discrimination feel like. He helped reform court-marshalled soldiers, consoled the homeless and took charge in deadly accidents: a C-130 aircraft crash and a 110 mph motorcycle collision. In counseling clients (Dan's pre-retirement financial & business brokerage work), Dan handled hundreds of millions in transactions. He's seen what strengthens and dissolves relationships. Dan has experienced spiritual and miraculous phenomena and investigated those of others. Dan usually pursued simultaneous endeavors (studied Economics, Modern Languages, Finance Math, English, and was a published professional instructor). He's been a lifelong student of Natural Sciences, Comparative Religion and Cryptozoology. Dan and wife Laura have been in love for over three decades and treasured raising their four "snit-generating" kids. Several professional and personal tragedies have been profoundly humbling. Yet, through it all, Dan kept sane to help others. He says, "I give psychological counseling to my cat, Watson, who claims to be a sabre-tooth tiger. Watson must think I'm gullible: he never tries to convince others of his delusions." Dan is the author of financial & expository nonfiction and quite a bit of humor, but mostly speculative and adventure fiction; no fantasy. He endeavors to give readers vivid sensory and emotional experiences. His bio is at the AuthorDan website, AuthorDan.com or StoriesAmazing.com

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This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

THE DAWN OF REASON AND FROM THE RELIQUARY OF JOB

First edition. April 11, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Dan Gallagher.

Written by Dan Gallagher.

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The Dawn of Reason and From the Reliquary of Job (Cryptozoological Thrills!, #1)

The Dawn of Reason

By Dan Gallagher

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D’mea and V’ea had known from childhood that they were different from the rest of their kind. The pair’s ancestors would become known a hundred thirty thousand years later as Homo heidelbergensis. But they were already divergent, and their progeny would become competitors to brother hominid races denisova, floresiensis, neanderthalensis and others.

D’mea’s fingers were longer than anyone’s, and he was so tall that his chin met others’ foreheads. His head was noticeably larger, his mouth did not protrude, and his brown fur was so sparse that his skin had bronzed deeply again this summer. The thick-browed mutant peered across the forested valley, thousands of feet below the rocky summit he had ascended in order meditate; perhaps to mate with the only other like himself.

V’ea sat next to him on the rock, trying to rub away his goose bumps as chill gusts pared the thin fur on their torsos.

The sun began to dissipate the fog below. D’mea rotated the leather-strapped hip bag that held his obsidian and flints so that he could pull his almost human-looking mate closer. The pair stared eastward and squinted at the yellow ball that daily threw back darkness.

Why does he move within us, D’mea, and not the others? V’ea asked in a variety of tones that had never been possible for her parents, nor any relatives except D’mea. Why do only we hear him who is as the sun?

Perhaps... he replied, though his broad lips remained closed, we are not our people’s children. Then he spoke resonantly, almost singing to his