Ruthless 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.

Mariners and dreamers alike will marvel at the thrilling authentic tales of marlin fishing, scuba diving and bonefishing presented in Hank Manley's book. What is it like to catch a 1000 lb. fish? Would you swim into a cave with a 450 lb. bull shark that was supposedly sleeping? Do animals ever display the human qualities of anger, revenge and trust? Could you catch a sailfish on line the thickness of a human hair? Can bonefishing result in broken bones? For more than 40 years, Hank and his wife Gretchen have traveled the waters of the Caribbean, the Bahamas and the Pacific in their boat Escapade. Enjoy some of their most memorable moments in Tales of a Life Upon the Sea.

A surprise hurricane sweeps across the small Bahamian island where Warren Early, age fifteen, is spending the summer. He is swept to sea with his dog Conchshell and knocked unconscious. The boy awakens at the secret camp of the famous pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard. Crew members suspect Warren is a spy for hated Governor Rogers and prepare to hang him. Blackbeard intervenes. Marty Read befriends Warren. Together they participate in the capture of a French merchant ship and a hostage plan to extort gold and medicine from the townspeople of Charles Town. The plot fails. Blackbeard is captured. Warren and Marty manage to free their captain and return to Nassau where they meet Calico Jack Rackman and Anne Bonney. The four pirates sail off to the Jamaica and seize a Spanish merchant ship with deadly results. Can Warren ever return to his frantic parents? What is the secret Marty has hidden so cleverly? Will the two friends be able to continue their growing relationship over the span of two hundred years?

Thirteen year-old Daniel McCarty and his family are starving in Ireland at the height of the potato famine. The crop that feeds 60% of the entire population and 100% of the poor has completely failed. Daniels sister dies and his father is killed in a bar fight. The English landowner evicts Daniel and his mother from the squalid hut. The intrepid lad vows to emigrate to America. The journey is far more arduous than anticipated. The McCartys settle in the dangerous, gang infested, Five Points area of New York. The boy inherits a fishing boat and sails to Norfolk where he becomes involved in the famous sea battle between Merrimack and Congress. In Richmond, Daniel meets Harriett Hampton, daughter of Abner, who deceitfully arranges for the youngster to be conscripted into the Confederate Army as it prepares to march toward Gettysburg. Tragedy strikes the lovers at the end of the war, forcing Daniel to head west. In the cattle town of Abilene, all the characters converge in a smoky shootout that provides a startling conclusion to the action-packed story.

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.