Book excerpt: If the human soul's physical essence were discovered it would affect every aspect of modern society. Religious, corporate, scientific and medical communities would be forced to deal with the revelation. How would they know what to do? Could you make the right choices? Would it make you rich? Powerful? Famous? God's messenger? Or would it make you dead? That is the monumental test facing sailor and physicist Jason Mason and his research team in Pelagic Soul. David George is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and an Aquinas College alumnus. He lives in southwest Michigan with his wife and son where he divides his time between family, writing and sailing. Pelagic Soul is David George's second novel.