BUMWAD EDITION 8

<p><em style=color: rgba(97 15 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>There is no calamity greater than lavish desires</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(97 15 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>There is no greater guilt than discontent</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(97 15 21 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>There is no greater disaster than greed. Lao-tzu</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>BUMWAD </em>a novel by John M Powers</strong><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> a story that plays out in the remarkable settings of </span><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Caribbean Puerto Rico The Bahamas Key West Gitmo & Havana Cuba.</strong><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> With a mysterious Latin Beauty named Lena Big $$$Money Marlin Tournaments a huge Drug Empire US Marine Special Forces 4Stars a Full Bird Mayor Rudy Giuliani & Greed. Ian McLeod an Architect & Fishing Captain with his two sons see Hemingway's Cuba through Lena's eyes. She calls out McLeod that he is too much like Hemmingway both artists loving the local Artistry on the cracked walls the music played by mistrals in the Shanty towns his love of her Cuban people his lack of fear walking around a Communist Cuba like he owned the place. Unbeknownst to him her father is the Don of the largest Drug Operation in the world The GROGGASS Empire that has been operating in pure stealth in Cuba on a 5000-acre Sugar Cane Plantation for 25 years at the blessing of </span><strong>FIdel & Rual Castro</strong><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and The Cuban Revolutionary Army. An attack on The </span><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Groggass Cortel & Cuba</strong><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is imminent. An unlikely group of men meet in Johnny Smilin' Dudley's Abaco Bahamas oceanfront home Ian designed 20 years ago. It's on a hill in Guano Cay (named for bird dung) near the famous old Nippers Bar & huge Boat Harbor Marina where Ian is fishing in the elite 94 boat </span><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bacardi Shootout & Junkanoo Festival</strong><span style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Smilin' a long time friend of Ian's is a hilarious but brilliant man who lives half his life in the Bahamas matches wits with the NY Mayor. They plan an attack on Cuba with a 100 Combat Marines an Op called Fidel a crossing of the Gulfstream and the likes few Military Minds have ever been a part of. Never in history. Ian may claim the fame of Jack Weis-played by Redford in HAVANA. She calls him</span><strong style=color: rgba(83 90 98 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> a hero in tarnished armor.</strong></p>