The team from NWIDI is at it again! This time, a trip to southern Japan to investigate a mysterious underwater pyramid off the coast of Yonaguni Island involves the four friends in a case of murder and international kidnapping. The maiden voyage of the team's newly acquired Learjet begins with a dramatic landing in Alaska's Aleutian Islands and, after a run-in with the Department of Justice in Tokyo, the team begins to think they should never have left home. When they finally touch down on Yonaguni, a Japanese-American exchange student befriends them and helps them get to know the tiny island of 1,200 people - and the dark secret being protected there. A tsubute discovered outside the NWIDI headquarters in Seattle reappears on Yonaguni and leads the team to a startling discovery about the true nature of the island and its original inhabitants. [A tsubute is an ancient Ninja throwing weapon.]
R.J. Archer is a mystery/adventure author, a freelance writer and a retired computer consultant who called the Pacific Northwest home for 39 years. The author and his wife, Marty, currently reside in La Paz, on the shores of the Sea of Cortez at the southern end of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
His fiction work includes two multi-book series. The Seeds of Civilization series is a trilogy loosely based on the theory that one or more advanced civilizations existed on earth long before the Mesopotamians built their first mud huts. Each Seeds novel is built around a different - but very real - unsolved archaeological mystery.
His second series, called Parallel Ops, spans four novels and takes the theory of ancient civilizations to a whole new level. The first three books take place during the exact same time frame and may be read in parallel, the way they were written, or in the more traditional serial manner. The fourth and last book in the series follows the first three chronologically. Book 1, The Scientists, was released in November, 2011. Books 2 and 3 are due out in early and mid 2012, respectively, and the final installment is scheduled for release on December 21, 2012 - the end of the Mayan calendar!
His non-fiction works include TheMegaBlog.com, an online chronicle of underwater archaeology activities in the Caribbean, where evidence of a REAL ancient civilization has already been confirmed.
Mr. Archer holds a Bachelor of Science degree with dual majors in Physics and Mathematics and he is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. His interests include ancient civilizations, inner and outer space and conspiracy theories of all kinds.
