The Well-Dressed Neanderthal

Talk about a cold case, try solving a thirty-thousand-year-old murder. We arrived on Earth 30,000 years ago. The Neanderthals were the dominant species then, but the Jotnar we created liquidated them. Over millennia, the memory of that genocide faded, and truth became myth as we descended into barbarism. Yet some of us didn't forget. And we have battled the Jotnar for thousands of years. They were nearly defeated, then an archaeological dig team found a technologically advanced instrument on the prehistoric remains of a Neanderthal man. The archaeologists were baffled. But we knew exactly what it was. And so did the Empty Ones. The Well-Dressed Neanderthal is a cosmic retelling of the Cain and Abel story, blending Genesis, Norse mythology, quantum mechanics, a kidnapped ex-naval aviator, a pitcher with a ninety-four mile per hour fastball, a slacker chick, and a mischievous Yorkshire Terrier into a complex stew, spiced with a forbidden attraction between a troubled FBI Agent and a beautiful woman with an earth-shattering secret.

Once upon a time, Francis was a soldier, then an entrepreneur, then a mandarin. Now he is a connoisseur of fine box wines and cheap cigars writing from The Woodlands, Texas.