Monster

The first book in the thrilling Mega Giant Series, "MONSTER" is filled with excitement, wonder, and sci-fi adventure. When this saga begins, an exo-biologist has a falling out with NASA. Despite his importance and contributions, he's banished. Yet, when an extraterrestrial threat looms, everything changes.

The first book in the thrilling Mega Giant Series, "MONSTER" is filled with excitement, wonder, and sci-fi adventure. When this saga begins, an exo-biologist has a falling out with NASA. Despite his importance and contributions, he's banished. Yet, when an extraterrestrial threat looms, everything changes. Dr. Larry Lazure attempts to lure Allen Fukagawa (aka "The Sandman") into porting adult themed content directly to the Space Shuttle during a mission, and then Allen is caught by Doug "The Weasel" Farrell. Head of NASA, Miles Washington now has no other choice but to fire Lazure upon return to Earth. After Lazure has been sent packing, an enormous "thing" appears just outside the atmosphere of Earth...directly over Cape Canaveral. The communications team discovers while using "Maxine," an ultra-sophisticated and powerful computer, that the thing has been snatching people off the planet surface for unknown reasons. Lazure makes it back to the Cape after a report that people in a nearby neighborhood witnessed a family member being taken and the neighborhood mass panics. Millions of people flee for their lives overnight, leaving dead men, women, children, and animals in their wake. Lazure makes it back to the Cape to lend a hand and Washington brings him in to help. While Lazure and the rest of the team contemplate the thing above, massive energy is beginning to pour out of the planet. New fissures open, toxic gasses escape into the atmosphere, and now Larry Lazure and a handpicked team have to try and solve the mystery of the extraterrestrial being before the planet is engulfed in soot and ash, becoming an extinction event.

Mark Daniel Proulx was born into a military family in 1960, where his father was working with guidance systems electronics for the Air Force Strategic Air Command's Hound dog missiles and early ICBMs. He spent the first 17 years of his life listening to B52's hot and ready on the flight lines 24/7 throughout his formative years. He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1982 with a journalism degree and desire to see the world. He eventually moved to South Florida in 1989 where he experienced firsthand and reported on hurricanes such as Andrew (1992) and Katrina (2005). After Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, he began reporting with the Gulf Coast News - an online news service - on what was left, efforts, and needed items for the residents trapped there. He worked alongside mainstreams media organizations (CNN, MSNBC) and, because of his and other contributors' effort, became an award-winning journalist, having won first place at the Online News Awards in Washington DC for Small Market Journalism News in October of 2006. He started his own consulting business in 2004 working for Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations due to his technical expertise and manufacturing experience, and along the way attended the Burt Reynolds Institute of Film and Theater (BRIFT) in Jupiter, FL creating and writing shorts and feature-length screenplays. Much of his writing influence comes from authors like Michael Crichton, who made it clear in all his books this one theme: "Just because you can do a thing don't mean you should." Although not directly related to Annie Proulx, author of the "Shipping News," Proulx has a similar conversational style of writing that draws the reader in the second they begin reading. The reader is part of the story from the very first line. His characters are deep, flawed, and relatable. His stories develop over time, allowing the reader to enjoy the journey's theater of the mind. His writing style and stories are the very definition of "page turners."