Prior Knowledge

Sam Christian is a seasoned veteran San Diego Police officer, a career he started in 1986. Sam cuts his teeth as a rookie, getting caught up in the Rock Cocaine wars of the late '80s, working the violent streets of the Southeastern Division of San Diego in a "Zebra" unit, a two-officer patrol unit with his partner of four years, Ralph Dollard. At the time of Sam's initiation of his career, he is what members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka, the Mormon Church, call an "inactive member," having reached a point of total agnosticism within his first year as a cop. The dark and cynical work of law enforcement tends to sway many from belief of Divine Origin of man. But Sam's story starts much earlier and much differently than what his chosen profession would deem appropriate for a law enforcement officer candidate. Why? Sam has had experiences he cannot share, experiences no one would believe as anything other than imaginary, if not categorically, certifiably insane. It all starts in the summer of 1962 in Eastern Canada on a hot, muggy Saturday morning at a pond near his parents' home. At the tender age of three, Sam drowns in the pond. Although resuscitated, Sam suffers what is diagnosed as amnesia due to hypoxia, lack of oxygen to the brain. With no apparent permanent brain damage, Sam is rehabilitated, but has noticeable changes to his personality, which include issues of fear/caution/carelessness, self-confidence/physical coordination/athletic ability, and likes/dislikes, though such traits at that age are not yet fully developed. That part, though significant, is not the "nondisclosure" factor. What qualifies are the encounters Sam would have from that age until he hits adolescence, encounters with Seth, a rather tall and large man he would initially name his "shadow man." Seth shows up at rather momentous incidents in Sam's life, usually life-threatening, or at least seriously health-threatening. Some of these encounters involve Sam's view of Seth's mode of transportation, an aircraft like nothing Sam has ever seen, whether real or in science fiction. Sam at first wonders if Seth is his guardian angel, which he quickly dismisses once he knows about the aircraft, then believes he might be from the future with time travel powers, or "just" some foreign government agent with superior technological devices, i.e., his weapons, his enhanced physical traits, and his aircraft, or an alien from another world. But Seth speaks perfect modern English with no discernible accent to suggest his origin as anywhere other than Western United States. Then, after multiple encounters, without any tapering off, any warning, or any lack of need for Seth's sudden and fortuitous arrivals, the visits stop, with some sixteen years of radio silence, until Sam, by then already an experienced police officer, and Ralph, his partner in their fourth year of service together, find themselves in need of backup. Later, Sam's on-duty/off-duty weapon is stolen, his status as cop suddenly changed to suspect, his weapon used in a double homicide, the act pinned directly on him. Factor in the interest of SDPD's Internal Affairs and Federal Investigators in a local street cop's unknown and rather sensational friend. Feds? Yeah, Feds.

Author: Stephen Crown Blackwater

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: 43938

Number of Pages: 232 pages

Binding: Fiction

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ISBN-13: 9798637936649