What if the man you just arrested for wandering the Mojave Desert wasn't insane, but a time traveller from the center of the galaxy? Highway patrol officer Alex Hays thinks it's just another hot July afternoon in 2010. Then he picks up a strange man in futuristic "pajamas" claiming he's from the year 2170. Hours later, the man vanishes without a trace during a violent desert storm, leaving Alex and a brilliant young nurse, Sally Moreno, with only questions. From that moment on, Alex's life takes an unexpected turn, one that will lead him from the highways of California to the cutting edge of space science at Stanford, and into a destiny far bigger than either he or Sally could imagine. If you love Michael Crichton's realism, C.S. Lewis's moral depth, and Arthur C. Clarke's sense of cosmic wonder, you'll be hooked by Of Black Holes and Prophets.