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When a beautiful journalist drowns mysteriously off Waikiki, Hawaii, Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins, now a well-known surfer and international correspondent for surfing magazines, tries to find out why she died. What he quickly learns makes him a target for murder or life in prison, as a cabal of powerful corporations, foreign killers, and crooked politicians places the blame on him. Haunted by memories of Afghanistan and determined to protect the Hawaii he loves from dirty politics tied to huge destructive energy developments, Pono turns to Special Forces buddies and his own covert skills to fight his deadly enemies, trying to both save himself and find the journalist's killers. Alive with the sights, sounds, and history of Hawaii, Saving Paradise is a deeply rich portrait of what Pono calls the seamy side of paradise and an exciting thriller of politics, lies, and remorseless murder.
Saving Paradise, by Mike Bond - Published on: 2015-03-03
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.40" h x .60" w x 5.30" l,
- Running time: 9 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Saving Paradise, by Mike Bond Review "A complex, entertaining ... lusciously convoluted story." - KIRKUS REVIEWS "Bond is easily one of the 21st Century's most exciting authors ... An action packed, must read novel ... taking readers behind the alluring façade of Hawaii's pristine beaches and tourist traps into a festering underworld of murder, intrigue and corruption." - WASHINGTON TIMES "Saving Paradise will change you ... It is a thrill ride to read." - WHERE TRUTH MEETS FICTION "A fascinating book." - KSFO, SAN FRANCISCO"A highly atmospheric thriller focusing on a side of Hawaiian life that tourists seldom see." - BOOK CHASE "Bond's vivid descriptions of Hawaii bring Saving Paradise vibrantly to life." - BOOK REVIEWS AND MORE "From start to finish, I never put it down." - BUCKET LIST PUBLICATIONS "A wonderful book ... quite powerful." - KUSA TV, DENVER "A fabulous book." - ART ZUCKERMAN, WVOX "An absolute page-turner." - ECOTOPIA RADIO"He's a tough guy, a cynic who describes the problems of the world as a bottomless pit, but can't stop trying to solve them. He's Pono Hawkins, the hero of Mike Bond's new Hawaii-based thriller, Saving Paradise ... an intersection of fiction and real life." - HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO "One heck of a crime novel/thriller and highly recommended!" - CRYSTAL BOOK REVIEWS "A very well written, fast-paced and exciting thriller." - MYSTERY MAVEN REVIEWS"A fast pace thrill ride ... The descriptions of Hawaii are beautiful and detailed." - ROMANCEBOOKWORM'S REVIEWS "A wonderful book that everyone should read." - CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO
From the Author Of Readers and Writers ... We delight in stories, Aristotle says, because we learn from them. This search for awareness - gathering the meaning of things - is, he says, our greatest pleasure. Aeons ago we sat round the fire in our Paleolithic caves with the cold darkness and the great unknown at our backs, sharing stories about where the antelope herds were or how to escape the cave bear or the lion, stories about our ancestors and the meaning of this magical mystery of life. None of that has changed: stories still portray and share our experiences, teach us of dangers and opportunities and of right and wrong ways of living, exchange our visions of existence. They give us multiple lives, and we gain awareness from each one. Awareness is wisdom, and philosophy simply means a love of wisdom. Stories bring us this awareness, and awareness makes us free. Freedom allows us to live more deeply, and thus to deepen our awareness of life's many meanings. It is a great circle where our understanding is constantly growing. We rarely sit now at campfires with danger at our backs, but it is important to remember those days, and to understand the dangers that stalk us today. Homer, Tolstoi, Gogol, Hugo, Némirovsky, Hemingway - what makes them great today is that their stories still help us gather the meaning of things, bring us the awareness tantamount to wisdom, make our lives freer and deeper through understanding. To be a writer or a reader is a great gift, yin and yang, neither existing without the other. As Camus said, "to create is to live twice", and reading is creating just as is writing - and through it we can live and gather the meaning of many lives. Gathering the meaning of things is our greatest pleasure because it is the most important act of life, the act of understanding. And the moment we stop we cease to live.
From the Back Cover When surfer and Special Forces vet Pono Hawkins finds a beautiful journalist drowned off Waikiki he's soon trapped in a web of murder, political and corporate corruption, drugs, sex and environmental destruction in the so-called paradise of Hawaii. "An action packed, must read novel." - WASHINGTON TIMES
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Rousing Thriller with a Message By Sam Sattler I read a lot of crime fiction. Crime fiction has, in fact, become my "comfort genre," the kind of book I turn to when my reading has gone stale and needs a kick-start to get it rolling again. But that also means I have grown very familiar with "the type," those male detectives who sometimes all seem to have been spawned by the same dysfunctional family. They can be so alike sometimes that they become dangerously interchangeable in the mind of the reader.Not so with Mike Bond's Pono Hawkins. Pono, a Special Forces vet who spends his days surfing Waikiki, giving surfing lessons to the less talented, and writing for surfing magazines, is different. He is a "reluctant detective," an amateur who wants to solve a murder because everyone else is so overeager to call it an accident. And, frankly, Pono has fallen a little bit in love with the pretty young woman whose body bumps into him early one morning as he wades into the surf in search of the next good wave. This is personal - very personal.Sylvia Gordon, an investigative journalist for The Honolulu Post, was onto a story big enough to get her killed. It is obvious even to an amateur like Pono that the young woman was a threat to some very powerful people. When his own nosing around gets their attention, as it soon does, Pono finds out just how willing these people are to kill to protect their secrets. Pono, though, is not a man without resources and certain talents, and he is not as easy to kill as the naïve young reporter who was in way over her head. Game on.Saving Paradise is an excellent crime thriller - but it is so much more than that. Pono Hawkins is a dedicated environmentalist, a native of Hawaii who very much loves the islands but regrets what they have become. Pono is a thinker, a man who sees a bigger picture than most, and Mike Bond deftly (and painlessly) uses the character to instruct the reader in Hawaiian history from an insider's point-of-view.Bottom Line: Saving Paradise is a highly atmospheric thriller focusing on a side of Hawaiian life that tourists seldom see - or want to see. Native Hawaiians have a long history of being exploited by people with money, one that to perhaps a lesser degree continues even today. Pono Hawkins, a Hawaiian with a prominent white ancestor, will tell you all about it.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Frenetic, Twisty, and with a School of Red Herrings By K. M. Martin SAVING PARADISE is a twisty mystery with a cast of thousands and a large school of red herrings. Afghan war veteran, convict on parole, turned surfer dude Pono Hawkins stumbles onto the corpse of journalist Sylvia Gordon when he is out surfing early one morning. Pono served a couple of tours in Afghanistan as a member of the Special Forces and isn't unfamiliar with dead bodies. However, something touches him about Sylvia's and he is determined to find out what happened to her.Little does Pono know that his investigation will uncover corruption from the Governor's Office to Hawaii's Electric Utility to Hong Kong businessmen who want to build casinos and subdivisions to land companies that control large parts of Hawaii. Circling all through this is a company called Wind Power that wants to build huge wind farms on Molokai and lay underground cables through coral reefs and habitats of endangered species.Pono has a huge number of suspects who stand to make or lose billions of dollars in the whole wind farm scam. And many of them would very much like Pono to be the next one to die. We follow Pono as he runs through the beautiful Hawaiian Islands trying to investigate while eluding the groups who would like him dead.I, personally, lost track of all the characters in this story. All of them had, potentially, motives that would make them part of the scam. I also didn't really connect with Pono until near the end of the book. I felt closer to his surfing dachshund than I did to him even though the dog was killed in the first third of the book.The environmental message was clear and repeated frequently by almost every person Pono talked to. Wind power was a scam that would cost billions for little reward and would do immense ecological damage to Hawaii. No one wanted it except the corrupt politicians and businessmen who would rake in immense profits at the government's and taxpayer's expense. At times, the message seemed to overpower the mystery.Fans of Bond's work will enjoy this frenetic, twisty tale. This one requires close reading to keep track of all the suspects, love interests, and assistants. Note taking might even help.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Behind the Green Curtain....The Wind Industry By Shellie Correia Anyone who has ever had to deal with the wind industry, will completely relate to this book. It is a novel, but change a few names, and it could be a true story! The wind turbine scam is exposed, as well as the corruption that keeps it running! Made into an exciting story, with all the trimmings!
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