Tharp, Alan: - Alan grew up in the 1960s reading science fiction novels and watching Star Track on TV, so becoming a life long fan of science fiction. He enter the Army in 1983 switch to the Marine Corps in 1990 and retire in 2005. His MOS in the military between wars was fixing Jets and Helicopters along with radar system. He was also award the ten time Expert Riflemen with the M!6, 60 Cal and 50 Cal Machinegun. Alan grew up on a farm in the Midwest. He has a degree on Construction Technology, after college Brit joined the military and Upon his retirement when he was only 40 years old, Brit established and run his 2 own companies; Red Dragon Sales and T and G Tree service. Alan, as fondly called by his family and friends self-studied multi-skills from carpentry to fixing a black hawk military helicopter. He always has a very high level of imagination. Whenever he watched a movie, he would think that "I can write better than that!".... "I can make a better ending of that movie!" Thus, with all this reaction from Alan, he started writing books with at first, no intention to publish it, he was just writing it for fun. This first published book by Alan is just the beginning of his journey as a published author. There are more books coming soon by this author.