Books by John R. Gentile

The image of Cooper Ridley flashes on television screens all over planet Earth. Ridley warns of an unimaginable danger, a threat to all Earth's creatures.

Azrnoth-zin, Mara-jul and the Displaced Alien Work Force join Ridley to convince the world’s leaders to unite against this deadly menace. Cooperation is not forthcoming.

Using secret contacts and brilliant disguises, the Phoenix Project surfaces in a final attempt to seize alien technology. A near fatal encounter occurs at the United Nations building leaving the Phoenix Project exposed. Duped by her own cabinet, The President and her family are taken hostage.

Earth friends, the Dutchman and marine biologists Doctors Darcy Billings and Teresa Gamez, become involved and, along with Ridley and his small group of aliens, are the only deterrent to the Trochinids. In an undersea base nearly two miles down, the marine biologists and a team of scientists work frantically to discover a weakness in Trochinid physiology.

Under attack at Pisaster base, Darcy, Teresa and Mara-jul make a discovery that may turn the tide of the war. In the final moments, they place all their hopes on a strange phenomenon in the SOFAR channel. It is Earth's last hope.

Cooper Ridley was dead. That was, until Azrnoth-zin turned his ship around and brought Ridley's barely alive body aboard his spacecraft. In a desperate act to save Ridley's life, Azrnoth-zin goes against all tenets of first contact and places him in a neural reorganization chamber.

Ridley's life functions are restored, but something is wrong. Ridley now discovers he has access to Delfinian history and secrets not known to most Delfinians, including Azrnoth-zin. When they finally catch up with the remainder of the Delfinian fleet, the Water Council deems Ridley to be a threat and banishes him to the Displaced Work Force, where every day is a fight for survival. Meanwhile, Azrnoth-zin is tried as a deserter and traitor and is handed a sentence worse than physical death.

Now, many light years from his home world, Ridley comes face to face with the Trochinids, a malevolent alien force moving through the systems, consuming everything in their path. He must use all of his newfound knowledge, along with some good old-fashioned skills from Earth to survive the Trochinids, the Delfinian Water Council, and a bunch of displaced aliens who just don't like the way he looks.

Maybe staying dead wasn't such a bad idea.

Cooper Ridley, a disgraced Navy SEAL with anger management issues, needs to get away from it all. So, he embarks on a twelve hundred mile solo sea kayak journey down the Baja peninsula.

When an alien ship crashes into the Gulf of California, Ridley’s life takes a sudden and dangerous turn. Led to a sub-tidal marine cave by a pod of bottlenose dolphins, Ridley discovers an injured alien. The dying traveler’s fate is in his hands.

Ridley is not the only one interested in the quirky stranger from the planet Delfinus. The clandestine Phoenix Project will stop at nothing to acquire the alien and his advanced technology.

The alien Azrnoth-zin discovers clues that may link his people to earth. Now on the run, Azrnoth-zin tells Ridley of a deadly threat to earth. Invasion by an alien armada is imminent. Their purpose: the complete consumption of every form of biomass available.

Ridley and Azrnoth-zin must run a gauntlet of sinister agents from the Phoenix Project in order to deliver the alien to his rendezvous point. In a remote volcano in the rugged Sonoran desert, Ridley must make a decision that could impact every living being on the planet.