Death Doesn’t Vacation on Okaloosa Island

About the Book

“Treachery on Okaloosa Island” is in print and available on line and at Barnes and Noble. Mr. King is working on the third Okaloosa Island Novel which will be “Revenge on Okaloosa Island”. Look for it in the Fall of 2016. At the west end of Okaloosa Island, the La Mancha complex is filled with vacationers relaxing on the sugar white sands of the Emerald Coast of the Florida Panhandle, but Death is among them working overtime. An overbearing mother drives her son to destruction because of his physical abnormality. A busy-body old Southern ‘belle’ sits in the shadows and rules her empire. Another scheming mother loves her business and ‘girls’ more than her own. A street kid escapes Katrina to become lost in his fantasy of a super hero. Two young men discover their lives must cross because of their pasts. A mysterious ex-Navy Seal seems to know more than he should. Drugs are traveling out of the Panhandle to locations all over the South. The 300 condos of the La Mancha are filled with a menagerie of scheming, evil, nosy, secretive, and even loving individuals. The only thing more powerful than the visiting Death is the majesty and mystery of the mighty Gulf.

About the Author

The author moved to the Panhandle of Florida after teaching literature for many years in Albuquerque. He has traveled to Europe several times and much of the United States where his knowledge and admiration of other cultures grew and these characteristics are apparent in his writings. He is an avid people watcher, much like the Prof of the novel, and uses unusual traits to round out his people in his writing. His love of writing and traveling are exceeded only by his love for his five grandchildren.