FIRST EDITION. Dec. 2003 First Books hardcover, John R. Gentile ( Book II of the SOFAR Trilogy). 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 the complete consumption of every form of biomass available. - Google Books
