Pioneers Of Hell

About the Book

During their sophomore year at highschool, two teen boys conducted a physics experiment for a final grade in physics class. They created a full size replica of the old testament’s “Ark of the Covenant.” Unknowingly, the boys sent a message across the universe. God’s angles intercepted the message and understood it to mean that the earth was finally ready for the “second coming” or the “rapture.” They returned to earth to gather the “faithful” where they collided with earth’s space program on the moon. When the angels received the innocent babies, earth thought it was an alien kidnaping. When they received the innocent children, they suspected they took them for food. When the faithful adults disappeared and the graves of their ancestors were opened, earth concluded that aliens were searching for a specific human DNA chain. The angles were fulfilling one prophecy after another, yet not one soul on earth recognized it as the “rapture.” When it was over, it was a priest, left behind, who made the faithful discovery . . . crying out “Oh my God . . . my God!” “Pioneers of Hell” is a story describing the final days of our earth and the beginning of time in Hell.

About the Author

Hannibal Missouri: Born in Hannibal, Missouri toward the end of the Second World War, Alvin Ray’s life seemed more like that of a fictional character created by Mark Twain, also from Hannibal. Runaway: Leaving home at the age of fourteen he wasn’t unable to finish high school until he was in his early twenty’s. At age fifteen the authorities, from Desoto County Florida, took him off the streets and placed in the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee. However, most of his teen years were spent on the road hitchhiking between California and Florida, having worked one odd job after another. Vocational: In his early twenties he finally completed high school and after a brief technical career, moved into management with the County of Santa Barbara, California. Legislature: While working in county government Alvin Ray developed a fervent interest in politics and made a bid for the California State Legislature in 1984. Soldier of Fortune to Corporate Executive: In his early thirty’s he left his management career for the gold fields of Southern California. It wasn’t too long before the complexity of the ore body he was mining forced him back into the real world where he rapidly climbed the corporate ladder to a “Director’s position” in a billion-dollar corporation. Cowboy: In 1993, thinking he was ready for retirement, Ray sought to fulfill his childhood dream of owning a cattle ranch. He bought a ranch in Colorado, stocked it with the popular Herford - Angus cross, and began his new “life on the range.” Activist: It seemed the quite, peaceful, lifestyle of a cowboy wasn’t quite enough to occupy his mind and not long after he established his “Triple ‘Y’ Ranch,” Ray reentered politics. His statewide effort to involve Christian conservatives in political events met with major opposition from Colorado’s existing liberal regime. While endorsing a national Jewish organization, the Republican® state Central Committee denied Ray’s Christian group a charter of their own. One party official said, “You’ll not be granted a charter as long as the word Christian remains in your organization’s name.” Publisher: For three years, Alvin Ray published his monthly political news letter, the “Spring Branch Feeder,” reaching a circulation of six thousand, in an effort to expand Colorado Christian’s involvement in politics. Colorado’s “Rocky Mountain News” and “Denver Post” came out in strong opposition to the Christian campaign. Only the “Pueblo Chieftain” published an unbiased editorial regarding the movement. The crusade failed simply because people were afraid of losing. The cardinal rule in all politics has been to “stand with a winner.” Having left politics for the last time, Alvin Ray has now retired to Arizona for the quiet, peaceful lifestyle of a novelist.