Alain Gunn
Alain Gunn has lived the exciting life that other authors only write about. He is a surgeon, an educator, a military officer, and a scientist. A retired US Army colonel, he served during the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, then as Chief Surgeon at a children's hospital serving patients throughout the Pacific basin, including Hawaii, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Fiji. For his humanitarian work, he was named an Honorary Ambassador by the Governor of Guam and was commended by the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.
He is well-traveled, having worked or taught in over 40 countries, on all the inhabited continents, but lives in the center of the Pacific Ocean, in Hawaii.
His many publications include newspaper articles, textbook chapters, scientific research, short stories, and six novels, A Tale of Two Planets, Red Exodus, If Pigs Could Cry, Fire at the Bottom of the Sea, The Honey Bee, and The Death of Aloha (the latter two under the nom de plume AK Gunn). He also contributed short stories to Mystery in Paradise: 13 Tales of Suspense and Intrigue and Dark Paradise: Mysteries in the Land of Aloha. and is author or co-author of more than fifty textbook chapters or scientific articles.
Hobbies include astronomy, scuba diving, underwater photography, ocean kayaking, playing banjo in a jazz band, and singing in a choir.
He is well-traveled, having worked or taught in over 40 countries, on all the inhabited continents, but lives in the center of the Pacific Ocean, in Hawaii.
His many publications include newspaper articles, textbook chapters, scientific research, short stories, and six novels, A Tale of Two Planets, Red Exodus, If Pigs Could Cry, Fire at the Bottom of the Sea, The Honey Bee, and The Death of Aloha (the latter two under the nom de plume AK Gunn). He also contributed short stories to Mystery in Paradise: 13 Tales of Suspense and Intrigue and Dark Paradise: Mysteries in the Land of Aloha. and is author or co-author of more than fifty textbook chapters or scientific articles.
Hobbies include astronomy, scuba diving, underwater photography, ocean kayaking, playing banjo in a jazz band, and singing in a choir.
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A Tale of Two Planets
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Science Fiction
Margaret Sandahl expects to face challenges when she leaves Earth on the first manned expedition to Mars, but she takes solace in her assumption that the Earth she leaves behind will be there, unchanged, when she returns three years later. A deadly virus changes all her assumptions. While the Arean Explorer speeds through space to its rendezvous with the red planet, researchers at the International Center for Disease Control detect a new viral encephalopathy, a lethal brain disease whose earliest symptom is loss of judgment. On Earth, Angie Munro and Mike Novak try to control a burgeoning epidemic, while Margaret, on a craft bound inexorably toward the plains of Mars, learns that one of the crew has brought the virus aboard, along with dangers she could never have imagined. 
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Red Exodus
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Science Fiction
Gregg and Christine MacDonald have survived the deadly Annihilation virus and the devastation of society it caused, but they and their two daughters, Leah and Sarah, long for a more meaningful existence than the bare survivalist lives they now lead. After a harrowing escape from marauders, they are driven to seek sanctuary with the Chosen, a mysterious religious cult in a fortified compound. The Chosen and their charismatic leader, Prophet John, offer safety, social mores, and a sense of purpose, but they demand commitment. Gregg and his family must decide whether to give up all they love on Earth and take the dangerous pathway to the future that the Chosen have committed to follow. Will they return to the terrors of lawless chaos? If they go with the Chosen, will the sanctuary they seek be more dangerous than the chaos they leave? 
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If Pigs Could Cry
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Medical Thriller
After Brad Crenshaw’s daughter dies while awaiting a heart transplant, he honors her memory by heading a research project to ensure that transplantable hearts will always be available for future children and parents in need. The donors will be swine, cloned and made compatible for transplant by substituting human DNA for the swine DNA that encodes certain proteins. After thirteen substitutions, his goal has nearly been achieved. Then, the unexpected happens and the dire consequences threaten his research, his family, his community, and ultimately, the future of mankind. 
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The Death of Aloha
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Thriller
Kimo Silva, Honolulu’s incoming mayor, inherits a city that faces hard times. Economic decline, Asian conflict, and internal ethnic strife threaten to unravel the Aloha Spirit that keeps Honolulu’s diverse population at peace. When his own son, Luke, is “hijacked” and threatened on his way to school, he begins to recognize an emerging pattern of ethnic intolerance accentuated by confrontations and crimes that threaten to dissolve that glue that unifies Honolulu's populace. Honolulu has been a model city for ethnic tranquility for decades, but Kimo knows that the peace Honolulu enjoys is both fragile and critical. He is determined to preserve Honolulu’s Aloha. But what can one man do? And how much will it cost him to do it? 
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The Honey Bee
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Thriller
County Sheriff Tom Britton feels a deep obligation to protect the populace of his small Ohio town, and when his best childhood friend is found murdered in the local lover’s lane, he is determined to bring the murderer to justice. But when his investigation begins to bear fruit, he soon realizes that solving the mystery of his friend’s death will involve the exhumation of small town secrets that might better be left buried, as the revelation of these secrets has the potential of destroying his town’s tranquility, threatening the well-being of close friends, and disrupting his own family life. How far will he go and what risks will he take in order to solve a crime that has deep roots in a sordid past? 
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Fire at the Bottom of the Sea
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Thriller
When CDR Daniel Farriott sets off on a voyage to test the capabilities of the new submarine he commands, he is aware of the risks to himself and his crew. He expects to push his submarine and its occupants to their limits and accepts the dangers that accompany that. But it is the unexpected that poses the larger threat, and that threat is aimed both at those in the submarine and at the families they thought they had left safely behind. As their routine voyage turns to a nightmare in the depths of the ocean, he and his crew recognize that their survival is dependent upon the talents and dedication of others desperately trying to effect a rescue and salvage, and that such a difficult task has never been successfully accomplished before.
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