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HANK MANLEY
"Wow, what an intriguing story! I confess this is the first time I’ve ever finished reading and editing a manuscript with tears in my eyes. Your novel has the perfect ingredients for a best seller (and that’s the first time I’ve ever written those words). I could hardly pull myself away from the computer. I believe your book could be made into an exciting movie (and I would love to write the script). The plot was great, building suspense with each chapter and portraying a vast knowledge of so many things?hunting, fishing, sailing, artillery, fighting, creative management to mention a few."
- Wanda Griffith, six-time published author
About the AuthorHank Manley has traveled the Bahamas by boat for thirty years. He has written two books on fishing, A Grand Quest and Beyond the Green Water. He lives with his wife, Gretchen, in North Palm Beach, Florida.
Available Novels
The Isle of Women
Hardcover
Pages: 248
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A Legacy of Honor
A Legacy of Honor is the saga of Morgan Early spanning the first seventy
years of the 20th century. Orphaned at birth in 1900, young Morgan
hunts his foster mother’s killer, battles a mountain lion, a grizzly
bear and the puzzling advances of a farmer’s daughter. Morgan fights
with Pancho Villa in Mexico and the Marines at Belleau Woods. He is a
rumrunner during Prohibition and a successful fisherman in Bimini after
repeal. Recalled into the Marines in 1942, Morgan lands on the bloody
beaches of Tarawa. His heroic life inspires his two sons to join the
Marines with tragic results on the island of Iwo Jima and the jungles of
Vietnam.
Hardcover
Pages: 351
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Bahama Snow
Bahama Snow is a fast paced action/adventure story about a corrupt DEA District Commander Dwight McFarland seeking to extort protection money from the Bahama drug runners rather than arrest them. McFarland frames charter boat captain Morgan Early and forces him to hunt the Bahamas for the smugglers' headquarters. He coerces the beautiful Rhonda Marcus to spy on Early to ensure the reluctant captain's information is accurate. Morgan and Rhonda travel the Bahamas, eventually fall in love, and discover the Bahamians' base of operations. With this information, McFarland launches his unauthorized visit after snatching Rhonda to lead him to the remote location when Morgan is out of town. The effort goes horribly wrong. McFarland is captured and chained to a dock, Rhonda is held captive and another DEA agent killed .Morgan returns, discovers Rhonda's plight, and - being a former Marine officer - immediately sets off to the Bahamas. The action is exciting and realistic. And when Morgan ultimately realizes McFarland's plan was profit, not prosecution, the conclusion is a classic showdown between avowed enemies.
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Pages: 272
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Bahama Payback
In the first of the Bahamas series, Bahama Snow, Defense Force
Commodore Jerome MacArthur's sons are shot to death on Sandy Cay. The
drug operation he masterminds is terminated. In Bahama Payback,
MacArthur discovers that Florida charter boat captain and former Marine,
Morgan Early, is responsible. He swears revenge. Colombian drug
lord Victor Torres sends MacArthur a bloody, stomach-churning message
that he must immediately re-activate their smuggling operation.
Drug Enforcement Administration District Commander Larry Reid is under orders
from Washington to eliminate the corrupt MacArthur. When efforts to
recruit Morgan Early for the task fail, he enters into a Faustian
bargain with the Commodore. Early's beautiful fiancée, Rhonda Marcus, is
kidnapped to draw Early to the Bahamas. Morgan Early must
summon all his nerve and resourcefulness to rescue Rhonda, meet the
deadly threat posed by MacArthur, triumph over the treachery of the
ambitious DEA District Commander, and thwart the renewed efforts of
Victor Torres.
Hardcover
Pages: 304
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Bahama ReckoningRuthless Colombian drug lord Victor Torres swears to his dying father that he will avenge the destruction of their Bahamas trafficking operation which concluded Hank Manley's last book, Bahama Payback. He discovers that Florida charter boat captain and former Marine Morgan Early is responsible.Torres sets in motion a devious chain of events to draw Morgan and his new wife to the islands. Their capture at a festive party on Paradise Island has bloody and unexpected results.Morgan and Rhonda finally conceive a risky plan to eliminate the continuing threat posed by Torres. Rhonda must gather all her strength and cleverness as she volunteers to infiltrate Torres' armed camp on the night he sets for their demise. Morgan must land on a hostile island, outnumbered and outgunned, to bring his beloved Rhonda home safely.
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Pages: 248
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Coral Cemetery
Rhonda and Morgan Early visit Spanish Wells in the Bahamas with their
fourteen month-old blonde, blue-eyed son Warren. He disappears. After
two frantic days they are informed the boy fell in the harbor and
drowned. Sharks attacked the body. They wouldn't want to remember their
son that way. With no embalming facilities and strict U.S. drug laws,
the grieving couple is presented with a tightly sealed casket and
ushered off the island. After Warren is buried in Florida, Rhonda's
torments begin. The boy calls to her in the dark. She is not dreaming.
The image is overwhelmingly powerful. She knows her son is alive and she
can prove it. Morgan reluctantly agrees to dig up his son's grave. The
idea is abhorrent and completely illegal, but it may bring closure to
Rhonda's grief. The casket is empty. Thus begins Rhonda and Morgan's
desperate quest to find their stolen son and the murderous reaction of
the evil culprit
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Pages: 220
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VengeanceThat night she was Marilyn, and she was looking for a man to kill. She had fought the rising urge for a month – ever since the night she had murdered her father. She thought the exciting ultimate revenge on her father would finally end her agony and put to rest her shame and self-loathing. But she was wrong. The hurt began to return. The humiliation continued to gnaw at her soul.
Morgan and Rhonda Early are summoned to the Bimini Bay Resort and Casino by their friend Daisy Bain. Male guests in the resort are found dead in their beds. Bewildering evidence is found on the victims’ bodies.
Different beautiful women are observed with the men on the casino video tapes, but there is no evidence the women were in the rooms.
Rhonda and Morgan struggle to learn the identity of the killer or killers. A single item of physical evidence is available for analysis. Will this be enough to prevent additional killings?
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Pages: 160
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Fundamental Behavior
Intercepted e-mails alert Homeland Security to the possibility of a
terrorist attack on South Florida staged from a Bahamian island. Rhonda
and Morgan Early are again recruited by the Drug Enforcement
Administration to monitor suspicious activity on Bimini, located just
fifty miles from Miami. Ahmed Atta needs money to implement his plan to
kill sixty-five thousand Americans. He busts convicted cartel leader
Victor Torres from jail for one million dollars. When Rhonda and Morgan
learn of suspicious activity on Bimini, they rush to the island to
thwart any potential danger. Torres inadvertently assists the terrorists
by attempting to avenge his earlier capture by Morgan and Rhonda. He
snatches their son and lures them to his trafficking headquarters on
Plana Cay with the intent to brutally murder them. Meanwhile, Ahmed
Atta's brilliant plan to kill an unfathomable number of Americans
proceeds unabated.
Hardcover
Pages: 264
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The Iron RiverThe Iron River is a phrase U.S. President Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. uses to describe the massive flow of semi-automatic weapons pouring across the Rio Grande River into Mexico from the United States. Mexican drug cartels demand the firepower to keep the Mexican authorities at bay as they smuggle cocaine back across the river into the U.S.
Beleaguered Drug Enforcement Administration agents are commanded by President Kyte to bust the largest Mexican drug cartel and halt the exportation of weapons. Their efforts continue to fail. Driven by lofty political ambitions, the head of the DEA and his Operations Chief hatch a desperate plan to infiltrate both the drug cartel and the gang supplying the arms.
Morgan Early and his wife Rhonda have had previous experience with the DEA, all of them ending unhappily for the Drug Administration. An initial attempt to re-enlist their services in the current quest fails. They agree to help the DEA only after the tragic murder of friend Daisy Bain’s fiancé.
Daisy flies to Cancun and manages to place herself close to drug czar Rafael Zapata. Morgan injects himself into the weapons gang in Texas. A massive exchange of rifles for cocaine is arranged. The head of the DEA dashes to the remote location in the Yucatan to reap the glory of the arranged bust with the Mexican authorities.
Nothing proceeds as planned by the DEA when all the players meet in the bloody Mayan ball court deep in the jungle at the ancient site of Chichen Itza.
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Pages: 256
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