Lex Allen is the author of the Imagine Trilogy, which includes the speculative science fiction thrillers No Heaven, No Hell and No Religion. A Texas expatriate, Lex settled in Germany after long stints with the U.S. Army and civil service with the U.S. Department of Defense. He began his third career - full time author - in 2012 and has published two novels and a short story anthology under the pseudonym, Alex Eldrich. A semi-professional musician from the early 1980's through the present, Lex wrote, recorded and published fourteen songs with MCP Records in Austria that led to accolades from the European Country Music Association as "Best Band and Best Album" in 1997. He currently performs with an acoustic trio at clubs and private parties in Germany. Raised in a Southern Baptist home, Lex quickly became disenfranchised with organized religion. He studied Buddhism and learned the concepts of spiritualism. In the last several years, Lex has developed a solid, laic understanding of quantum physics theories as well. More than ten years of reading and research into these subjects and the history of monotheistic religions, in particular Christianity, provided the foundation for the concepts found in the Imagine Trilogy . Lex is currently working on his third novel, No Religion, scheduled for publication in late 2013. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.