Born in Puerto Rico and migrated to Philadelphia at 8 years of age. Vietnam War Veteran. After discharged opened my own business. Sold business and entered Law Enforcement – 5 years with Philadelphia Police Department and then 25 years as a Deputy Sheriff. Retired as a sergeant. Wrote articles for local papers and online news services. Went to college in my 60’s and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in 2 years instead of the usual 4. As a voracious reader I have absorbed hundreds of books and used that accumulated knowledge/experience to take advantage of several programs to eliminate many elective college classes. Programs include CLEP (College Level Examination Program, PLA (prior Learning Assessment) and Experiential Essays. First published book was Historical Fiction: In the Beginning – The Early Days of Religious BeliefsSecond book effort is The Lazarus Syndrome non-fiction dealing with a little known medical event where patients declared dead, revive minutes, hours, or days later, The book also covers NDEs – Near Death Experience and OBEs – Out of Body Exeperience.Review Blurbs“I think that Jaime Reyes has not yet reached his peak in storytelling. He is a natural and needs only to polish a few structural areas of his writing. I look forward to reading more by this author, and I hope that he will continue to share his imagination with the world. It is hard to place this book in a single genre because it casts such a wide net. While there are some aspects of this book that I didn’t love, I deeply enjoyed the story. In actuality, I would love to see this book adapted into a movie. Until that time, I endorse this book as a fantastically fun read that lays somewhere between fiction and reality and plays with themes of love, violence, and one man’s theory of the origins of religion.”- Arthur Thares -Pacific Book Review “Jaime Reyes does a great job with creating a setting and environment for the story. The story is as simple as it is powerful… I would think, In the Beginning, is a good read for younger generations who only begin to ask questions and doubt everything around them.” -Kathy Denver Reviews Editor The International Review of Books“Reyes has a simple writing style, akin to an old legend such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. The style is very simple, light on dialogue and focused on the action. … there are many detailed battle scenes that narrate the protagonist’s precise thought process in the heat of battle, down to each parry and sidestep.” -Logan Krum, Northeast Times“This story is set in a difficult era to create a work of fiction… As Reyes points out in some of the book’s supplementary material, there’s still so much we don’t know about human life back then.. This took more imagination than most book settings and takes historical fiction to a whole new extreme… However, when a book makes you imagine what the world might have been like a long time before you and I came on the scene, it’s fascinating, indeed.”- Dan MacIntosh-Hollywood Review of Books“It’s the greatest story ever told, the origin of our belief in gods—not in just Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or any other specific religion but in religion itself… Jaime Reyes, author of In the Beginning, presents an enticing theory in his fictional tale:” “I loved the idea of a Neanderthal having begun the concept of religion.. The story did not disappoint. The plot is simple yet strong; it makes perfect sense.” . “Every part of this novel, from the history of Neanderthals to tiny moments of character development, play an important role. Reyes does well in planting minor seeds in the readers’ heads only to return to them and make them greatly more significant later on. Better yet, I could not always predict which of these small details would be key a few chapters later. This fact alone is enough to keep the reader going, just to see how a minor character or seemingly mundane event might return with a vengeance.”- On Line Book Club Official Review by dragonet07 04 July 2019Author Reyes has created a believable fantasy focusing sharply on the development of the earliest known prototypes of modern man…Reyes’ book is both scholarly nonfiction and enjoyable fable…[He] includes information to underpin his narrative… Reyes’ characterization Synopsis: In the BeginningIn an era when organized religion did not yet exist, people turned to the supernatural to explain the mysteries of life. Og is an exceptional cave dweller and the oldest member of the tribe. He takes advantage of an opportunity during a stressful time for his tribe. He declares himself the voice of the spirits to whom his tribe naively attributes unexplainable natural phenomena and can intercede with the spirits on behalf of the tribe. Out of fear and necessity, the tribe has no choice but to believe the old man when he claims only he can save them. His claims and convincing rhetoric lead to the creation of the most powerful persuasive force in history. The tribe prospers and so does the first priest; so much that he passes on his ideas and accumulated power to his children and grandchildren. Then the Cro-Magnon appear. The interaction between the two distinct early humanoids leads to historic changes in the future of both species.Sinopsis: En el PrincipioEn una época en la que la religión organizada aún no existía, la gente se volvió hacia lo sobrenatural para explicar los misterios de la vida. Og es un habitante excepcional de cuevas y el miembro más antiguo de la tribu. Aprovecha una oportunidad durante un tiempo estresante para su tribu. Se declara a sí mismo la voz de los espíritus a los que su tribu ingenuamente atribuye fenómenos naturales inexplicables y puede interceder con los espíritus en nombre de la tribu. Por miedo y necesidad, la tribu no tiene otra opción que creer al anciano cuando dice que sólo él puede salvarlos. Sus afirmaciones y retórica convincente llevaron a la creación de la fuerza persuasiva más poderosa de la historia. La tribu prospera y también se enriquece el primer sacerdote; tanto que transmite sus ideas y poder acumulado a sus hijos y nietos.Entonces aparece el Cro-Magnon. La interacción entre los dos humanoides primitivos distintos conduce a cambios históricos en el futuro de ambas especies.Read more about this authorRead less about this author