Saffron: Book One of The Neptune Chronicles

by Vic Warren

Overview

Jamie Edmondson is friends with nearly everybody, as long as they don't disagree with his strident views on the environment. When he leads an expedition up the California coast to the discovery of a new race of humans who live under the sea, things change. That's when he meets some really bad people who don't like humans that aren't human. We call them Neptunes, and this race of telepaths threatens everything we humans stand for. When Jamie falls for a beautiful young Neptune, he discovers that when you're underwater, no one can count your tears.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496173270
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/10/2014
Series:	The Neptune Chronicles , #1
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

With a phenomenal career that started out writing and designing over 100 children's books published with Scholastic and McGraw-Hill, as well as a Clio award-winning advertising career, Vic Warren was ready for a new writing challenge.

His second novel is Saffron, a sci-fi adventure that reads like mainstream fiction and deals with the discovery of a race of underwater humans off today's California coast. Saffron is the first in a new series of books Warren is calling The Neptune Chronicles.

Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Warren worked as an advertising executive in the travel industry for 30-plus years. He is a recipient of a Clio award and is best known for creating the Alaska Airlines Eskimo logo. His experience with Alaska Airlines opened many doors for him in the travel and tourism industry and he started his own company called Turning Heads. He also became a book packager, editor, designer and writer in collaboration with several illustrators, producing more than 100 children's books. He attended the San Francisco Academy of Art, majoring in graphic design and art direction. Warren is an avid traveler to Asia, Europe and the South Pacific.

In his first novel, Stairway of the Gods, Warren took the legendary story of Japanese officer, General Tomoyuki Yamashita-who is rumored to have buried priceless spoils of war in the Philippines just before the end of World War II-and turned it into riveting fiction. Warren's tale of skullduggery unfolds on the slopes of the Banaue rice terraces when an earthquake reveals Yamashita's treasure, and Joan and Paul Webster are stuck on the mountain. When Joan is faced with trying to keep the discovery secret, they find themselves confronted with deceit, betrayal and murder.

His third novel, Hong Kong Blues, is a Hitchcock-style thriller about a newly-married couple being chased by two Hong Kong Triads, who want to learn the last words of a man who died in their arms. Early readers liked the characters so well that he has started a spinoff series called The Inspector Kwong Mysteries, and he has finished the first two books: The Quartz and The River.

He is currently at work on Book Two of The Neptune Chronicles, Girl on a Dolphin. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Laurel, and their three-legged cat, Oscar. To learn more about his novels, please visit his website, The Art of Adventure, at www.vicwarren.com.

Editorial Reviews

03/02/2015
Diver Jamie Edmondson gets a call from a rich eccentric to investigate rumors of strange creatures off the shore of present-day California. After discovering a race of undersea humanoids, Jamie fights to keep them out of the hands of the government in the first book of a series that features a great premise but falters in execution. While the imagination and wonder of finding the telepathic Neptunes balances out some of the bad dialogue (such as Jamie’s unironic exclamation of “You fiend!”), Warren (Stairway of the Gods) falls quickly into relying on caricatures of evil government agents and noble employees within a corrupt system. Most egregious is the lack of agency for Jamie’s hot actress girlfriend, Mercy, who exists primarily to be kidnapped, and the completely unnecessary sexual assault of a young Neptune to prove how evil the government is. This missed opportunity sinks under the weight of its faults. (BookLife)

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