Life as a landscape painter on an inherited ranch is easy for Alex Colvin until a peculiar meteorite shatters his complacency. Alex unkwingly possesses the final component of an outlandish physics experiment being conducted by Reverend Lucas Ruthlier, leader of the Church of the God Particle. Reverend Ruthlier's lifelong dream depends on possessing the meteorite, and w he's coming for it. Based on the race to discover a unifying theory of modern physics and cosmology, Church of the God Particle sweeps across the high plains of Kansas, uncovers treason in Cold War Romania, and tumbles into Austin, Texas.
David Piper grew up on endless high plains vistas overlaid with right-angle gravel roads. An enormous monopoly hired him to fix residential telephones, where he encountered the full expression of human eccentricities. After earning a degree in economics at the University of Kansas, he acquired a couple of telecommunications patents. He managed technical teams and created algorithms that dynamically altered networks. This behind-the-scenes interaction between computers and the public spurred him to write Church of the God Particle, a speculative crime thriller in which a man attempts to physically and spiritually absorb a new technology. David lives and writes in Austin, Texas.