Author and Emmy winning television producer George C. Schellenger's novel "Not Because It's Easy" released this summer is a metaphorical autobiography of Project Apollo about one man's quest to rekindle the space program and another's assignment to stop him at all costs.

For Algier, the assignment has him tracking down three artifacts from Roswell, New Mexico; surviving a shootout on a golf course; and coming face-to-face with a Tiger Shark at night.

The real adventure begins in a cave full of poisonous spiders somewhere in the Caribbean, ending in orbit above the planet. Success or failure on the mission could be the difference between reaching Algier's ultimate goal or unwittingly aiding in the destruction of the free world.