DID THE KGB AND THE CIA STAND BY AND LET CASTRO KILL KENNEDY? If not, why are all these old, sad has-beens still trying to cover their blood stained foot prints? "The Devil to Pay" by Gene J. Parola, is a Murder Mystery, Spy, Sailing Adventure set aboard a yacht in the Florida Straits and the Bahamas. Sven Olafson and Matt Blair, a yacht delivery crew, pick up a client's boat at an isolated anchorage in the Bahamas. Even before they board, they find the body of GULL's boat keeper in the bottom of her dinghy. Menacing Cubans board GULL at night, threatening to tow her away to be dismantled in...

A young Hawaiian noblewoman comes of age just when her queen discards the native religion in favor of Christianity, thereby destroying her hereditary right and responsibility to rule. The arrival of missionaries begins the coordinated regular external attacks on the Kanaka culture extending to the end of the 19th century when the United States illegally annexes the Islands. All this occurs as Lehua attempts to lead her people through these searing adjustments. Each is played out in the human terms of her romance and life with a mixed-blood Hawaiian paniolo cowboy] husband. Conflicted by...