The Biogram by David C. Pearce

About the book

A Florida engineer conducts computer-based research on human DNA in order to predict human taste preferences and personality traits for a large cola company. The objective is to increase market share for the cola company by guiding the development of products and ad campaigns. When the engineer discovers the Biogram, someone tries to kill him.

The Biogram is a genetic program that has been guiding the development of human DNA toward a specific result for one hundred twenty thousand years. With the existence of their world drawing predictably to an end, aliens sought an alternate home on our planet. The environment here would not support their life form. The Biogram was initiated on earth by the aliens to convert primitive humans into a life form physically similar to their own with a passive, docile nature suitable for conquest. To prevent discovery of the Biogram and to insure the successful run of the program, the aliens have recruited human helpers, called shepherds, from around the world. The shepherds add the engineer to their hit list after his discovery of the Biogram.

The security directory of the cola company helps the engineer and his friends elude the shepherds and escape to the Bahamas. The engineer writes and publishes a book describing the Biogram and what must be done to stop it. The security director uses the Internet to expose the illegal activities of the shepherds. Public action is initiated to stop the Biogram.

About the author

Preceding the Normandy Invasion by five months, the birth of David C. Pearce was lost in the headlines of Axis aggression and subsequent defeat and initiated a lifetime of achievement in the shadows of more noteworthy events.

Oh, to be able to cast a shadow of his own, the youthful athlete mused. While marveling at the abilities of Mays and Mantle, he carefully honed his skills in sports covering the four seasons. In gaining physical strength and mental toughness, he earned some time in the light of public approval, but the shadows cast were diminutive and short-lived.

His thoughts returned to those early years when the giants of victory cast their immense shadows across the Pacific and throughout Europe. Following in the footsteps of MacArthur, Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton might put him on the path to greatness of his own. Standing eighteenth in West Point's graduating class of 1966 earned him a commission in the Corps of Engineers. It also provided an opportunity to earn a Master's degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois and launched him into service during the most controversial period in the history of the U.S. Army, the Vietnam Conflict. The light of the time was directed in a way to magnify the shadows of war protestors, draft dodgers, and village marauders, not the sorts of shadows he would choose to create.

An engineering career of thirty years helped produce and nurture a family, community recognition, and an ability to plan and organize complex tasks, such as writing a novel. Being a principal in his own engineering firm taught him to find his shadows where they fall and take what enjoyment they may provide, not worrying too much about shadows cast by others.

Dreams do not die easily. Urged on by the light of experience gained, he finds himself at the threshold of another door, offering The Biogram to cast memorable shadows on the imaginations of readers.