Joe’s Trip Around the Sun

About the Book

Joe’s Trip Around the Sun is a novel for anyone who has ever felt the apparent conflict between religion and the discoveries of modern science. It tells the story of everyman Joe Gray, a humble trucker desperate to find evidence for the spiritual world and his own place within it. Lonely in his reluctant agnosticism, yet inspired by a persistent sense of the metaphysical, Joe must endure a harrowing journey beset with mind-bending technological obstacles, heartbreaking setbacks, and near-death experiences, before he has any chance of uncovering the truth. But will it be in time to be reunited with the love of his life? Will this newfound understanding enable him to overcome a dark evil that has grown to threaten the world? Joe’s Trip Around the Sun blurs the line between the physical and spiritual worlds to the point where the reader may question the existence of that demarcation altogether.

About the Author

Mark Wecks received his engineering degree at Oregon State in 1989. Since then he has worked with commercial aircraft at Boeing, submarines at Pearl Harbor, and for the majority of his career in the destruction of chemical weapons. He has authored a wide variety of technical papers, proposals and reports. This background, coupled with a life-long interest in the areas of science, philosophy, and religion, led him on an ambitious project to write a novel that combined these three subjects. Joe’s Trip Around the Sun is the result of this effort. He currently lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.