(HawaiiNewsNow) - Best-selling author and
Molokai resident Mike Bond is set to release his latest novel, Saving Paradise,
which takes place entirely in Hawaii. Hailed by the BBC as "the
master of the existential thriller," Bond has received numerous awards,
and his works have been translated into many languages.
In Saving Paradise, when a beautiful
journalist drowns mysteriously off Waikiki, former Special Forces veteran Pono
Hawkins, now a well-known Hawaii surfer and international correspondent for
surfing magazines, soon gets embroiled in trying to find why she died. What he
learns quickly makes him a target for murder or life in prison as a cabal of
powerful corporations, foreign killers and crooked politicians turns the blame
on him. Alive with the sights, sounds and history of Hawaii, Saving
Paradise is also a deeply rich portrait of what Pono calls "the seamy side
of paradise", and an exciting thriller of politics, lies, and remorseless
murder.
Based on his own experiences as a war and
human rights journalist in dangerous, remote, and war-torn regions, his novels
look deeply into the dark side of man as well as the good. They depict the terror
and fury of battle and the intense joy of love, the vanishing beauty of the
natural world, and the nature of the universe and its many meanings for human
life. His lean unsentimental raw prose, free of best-seller formulas and
literary pretension, conveys through the lives of real people what it means to
be deeply alive, to hunger for a better world.
For more information visit www.SavingParadise.org.
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