Specific Impulse

Space scientist Carin Gonzales and former submarine commander Jake Sabio are two strangers drifting separately through life when a thunderous explosion brings them together, transforming both in unpredictable ways.

Now able to see and smell more precisely and move in ways that are clearly impossible, Gonzales and Sabio soon realize that these kinds of life-changing alterations do not come without a price. Others who witnessed the explosion are now dead from a seemingly incurable infection. The CDC wants to lock them up in a lab for study. Special Agent Will Greenfield wants them for questioning. And contract killer Antonio Crubari is ready to speed up their deaths if need be.

Time is running out for Gonzales and Sabio. As they struggle to survive and find a cure for this unknown deadly infection, they uncover a secret of monumental proportions that changes everything - for them and the entire human race.

ABOUT CHARLES JUSTIZ

A graduate of the Air Force Academy and a former officer of the United States Air Force, Charles Justiz spent tours of duty as an instructor pilot at Webb Air Force Base as well as doing flight tests at Eglin Air Force Base. Retired from NASA as of June 1, 2010, he was rated as both an instructor pilot and an examiner pilot in the Astronaut T-38, the Shuttle Training Aircraft (with more than 25 years of experience and 15,000+ Shuttle approaches), the C-9, and in the 747 Shuttle Carrier.

Overall, Justiz has logged in excess of 22,000 flight hours in more than 100 different types of aircraft, including NASA's weightless training aircraft known as the "Vomit Comet" and the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Dr. Justiz developed the Crew Resource Management program for NASA aviators, was the program manager and lead developer for the onboard landing simulation system for Space Shuttle pilots to use while on-orbit, and was the Chief of Aviation Safety for NASA.

A first-generation Cuban-American and Ph.D. in Thermo Physics and Plasma Dynamics, Justiz lives in Houston, Palm Springs, and New York with his author wife Dayna Steele and any number of rescue dogs.

(Re-release 2021)