Once Dead

Product Description Jack Gregory, the CIA’s top assassin, bleeds out on a Calcutta operating table and is about to die.But an alien entity has other plans for him.If Jack is willing to act as a human host for this dark figure, he lives. Jack takes the deal.

One year later, he is known internationally as The Ripper, fixer for hire, and finds himself increasingly drawn to dire, world-shattering events. Suffering strange premonitions and compulsions, Jack has more questions than answers. What destiny does this alien mind foresee?

Why has it chosen him?From bestselling author Richard Phillips comes a globe-spanning sci-fi thriller series with a twist...culminating in the cataclysmic events that set the stage for the Rho Agenda.

From the Author Two important Rho Agenda characters, the NSA special operators Jack 'The Ripper' Gregory and Janet Price, enter The Rho Agenda about a third of the way through The Second Ship and become so integral to the story that I am now in the process of writing three prequel novels that feature them.What makes a hero?

For Jack Gregory, it's a serial killer's soul.Once Dead, the first Ripper/Rho Agenda novel, is scheduled for release under the 47North imprint on August 19th, 2014. In Once Dead, readers learn that ex-CIA assassin Jack Gregory revived on a Calcutta death-bed, sharing his mind with a dark entity that has previously inhabited some of history's most notorious killers.

One year later, plagued by terrible dreams and compulsions, Jack is no longer the man he once was. As he struggles to regain self-control, Jack is reluctantly recruited for an NSA mission to prevent a nuclear attack on the United States. About the Author Richard Phillips was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1956.

In 1979, he graduated from West Point as an army ranger and served for several years as an officer in the United States Army. In 1989, he graduated with a master of science in physics from the Naval Post Graduate School, completing his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Phillips then spent three years as a research associate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before completing his tour of duty as an army officer. He previously released the popular sci-fi conspiracy epic the Rho Agenda trilogy.

Phillips was hailed by bestselling author Orson Scott Card as someone who “is very quickly going to be very well known as one of the best and most popular writers of near-future sci-fi.” Phillips lives in Phoenix with his lovely wife, Carol.