The Missionary Position - Softcover

Dinlocker, R E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587216841 ISBN 13: 9781587216848

Publisher: 1st Book Library, 2000

Synopsis

This historical fiction finds Angie Benedetto's chafing from her neighborhood's customs as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform. All Angie wants to do is fly airplanes and travel to exotic places.
Combining historical facts and fictional adventure, Anthony Volente plans to control a gold mine by helping its original owner, Edgar Abbott Aldridge, regain control of the mine from the Vatican Bank. Edgar Aldridge's declaration of his son, Charles', death in Irian Jaya and Angie's mother's acquiescence to let her daughter fly for Anthony's company Irian Jaya allow Anthony to launch his plan.
Volente and Aldridge's banking connections apply pressure to Luchino Cardinal Volente, the corrupt Vatican Secretary of State, who orders retaliation.
While flying for her 'Uncle' Anthony, Angie witnesses soldiers murdering natives. After she reports her sighting, the killers sabotage her plane. Angie crashes on her next flight and Dani and Yali tribesmen help her find the presumed dead Charles Aldridge, the only man who can help her escape. Angie and Charles have to contend with swamps, cannibals and each other as the native's killers hunt them.
In this historical fiction, Angie never discovers how Anthony Volente has used her, but Volente discovers that he, too, has been used when he learns of an unknown connection with Edgar Abbott Aldridge.

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About the Author

I have lived in and written about Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Haiti, Shanghai and the US.  My novels are The Missionary Position, about Angela Benedetto's adventures in Irian Jaya, My Enemy, My Friend, about a love affair during the Iranian Revolution, Something Came Up about a young man's search for himself hitchhiking across the US, Shanghai'd about a Chinese/Israeli plot originating in 1930's Shanghai, Maiden Shanghai, about Shanghai's Green Gang's covert aid to China's Xinjiang Seperatists, Laidback & Co. about an athletic team in Jakarta, Indonesia, The United Hates of America about two rival preachers who join forces against common enemies THE TORAH-The Director's Cut, God, a humorous retranslation of the Torah and Four Guys Gospels about an advertising company hired to sell a Jewish man with a Hispanic name as the Messiah.  I have written published articles for Channel East Magazine, West-East Magazine, Media Magazine, Asian Hotel and Catering Magazine, zingasia.com, chinaOnline.com and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Edition details

• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587216841
• ISBN 13: 9781587216848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348