Righteous Paradise

By David Smith

Mystery, Mischief, and Romance erupt when cultures collide on a small and seldom visited island in the Far Pacific . . .Puai. A lovely, tiny island, floating lazy and alone in the Far Pacific Ocean. Where fish jump from the sea into the boats. Where fruit falls from the sky into the baskets. Where a host of adventurers have suddenly appeared from nowhere to threaten the island's very way of life.The trouble-making visitors soon attract the attention of Anjana Apona. Anjana is the Private Secretary to the President of Puai. Anjana and the president have a positive working relationship. She's positively smart, and he's positive whatever she wants to do is okay with him. Her boss is presently missing, of course; the president doesn't like stressful circumstances. Neither does the sleepy Puai legislature, which often leaves Anjana to run the little country on her own.The arrival of the annoying guests is a mystery to Anjana. Almost no one ever visits her remote island. Who are these people, and why are they here? For Anjana, the continuing sovereignty of her peaceful and humble country is paramount.Sensing profound intrigues and determined to uncover the intentions of the recently arrived visitors, Anjana builds a network of local informers and encourages them in the art of spycraft. Her informers, however, misinterpret much, and soon she finds herself jumping out of windows, hanging out at the seediest and most unhygienic bar in the entire Pacific Ocean, careening into the sky with Paui's ancient one-eyed pilot, and (hopelessly) encouraging and discouraging romance between her informers and the trespassers.Certain that her country's future is at stake, and resolved to find the answers she needs, Anjana suddenly finds herself navigating passageways of international treachery and political conspiracy. As the mysterious schemes of the visitors grow and multiply, Anjana, alone in her endeavors, soon realizes that time is running out, and that it is up to her to discover and expose the corrupt ambitions of the foreigners, ambitions that would forever compromise her country's simple and unaffected way of life.Calling to mind the riotous tales of Christopher Buckley and Carl Hiaasen, Righteous Paradise invites the reader along on an exotic and mischievous ride - one that takes place just below the thin seductive surface of the islands of the Far Pacific.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500218154
• ISBN13: 9781500218157
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"