This collection of true stories recounts the author's lifetime of blunders, adventures, disasters, and hair-breadth escapes in his endeavors to find a sport in which he could excel, or at least not make an idiot of himself. These endeavors were unsuccessful. The stories are told with a humorous, self-deprecating style that is fun to read and is entirely justified by the facts.

Here is an Egypt you won't find in your travel books. Some of the memorable characters and places you'll meet: The FAA inspector who is afraid to fly on Egypt Air. The repressed swingers of Club Med. Cabbies who drive their taxis on the sidewalk. The guide who hates Egypt and all its contents. The woman who creates a scandal in the bazaar. An unnoticed remnant of ancient times in the middle of Cairo. The place where the dead live better than the living. The tragic guide torn between his culture and Western women. Aswan -- tough tropical paradise in the desert. The ship's captains who glare...

Fifteen people, many of them strangers to each other, set out to sail the Bahamas on a 65 foot boat, unaware of the nightmares ahead. This true account of that strange voyage should persuade you to choose your sailing companions carefully.

When Miles Conrad makes increasingly ludicrous and unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife Daisy, including trying to push her into the crater of the volcano Soufriere on the voodoo-haunted island of St. Toulouse, his frustration, humiliation, and guilt begin to drive him slowly insane. When Daisy falls into the crater accidently, he is arrested for the crime he tried but failed to commit. Released, he finds he has lost everything -- his wife, his lover, his job, and most of his sanity. Incredibly, he begins thinking he can solve his problems by committing another murder.

A respected scientist/engineer points out phenomena in the real world that cannot be explained by known physical laws. A few are just amazing coincidences, but many are so esoteric they cannot even be contemplated easily. Some of the miracles he discusses are: Time, Space, Matter and Energy, Life, Light, Gravity, Black Holes, Water, The Brain, Evolution Toward a Goal, Biochemistry, Quantum Mechanics, The book is written for the layman, but even scientists may find something to think about.

Miles Conrad succeeds in murdering his rival for the affections of the beautiful Elizabeth. He flees to the Caribbean island of St. Toulouse, pursued by Elizabeth and his miraculously-alive ex-wife Daisy. There they find themselves immersed in an evil miasma of death and doomed love, dominated by a vicious new Voodoo queen. Daisy and Miles find their destinies in the rain forest, one as a nearly wild animal and one in death, while Elizabeth's discovery of evil's existence leads her to love and spiritual renewal.

St. Toulouse has descended into a series of monumental struggles against increasing evil, focused on the voodoo queen Mama Careaux and a mysterious jaguar. The outcomes of those life or death conflicts will determine whether or not the island can be saved from moral destruction.