The Missionary Position

Fact: In the 1970's the world's largest gold mining operation was begun on Irian Jaya.Fact: In the 1970's the son of a rich entrepreneur was lost and presumed dead on Irian Jaya. Fact: In the 1970's the Vatican Bank Scandal had the Holy See in debt for over US$800 million.In the 1970's Angie Benedetto, a smart-mouthed Brooklyn girl who's neighborhood customs chafe her as much as her plaid-flannel Catholic school uniform, desperately wants to fly. Angie dreams of flying airplanes, traveling to exotic places and finding a guy who doesn't think high-roll collars and a duck's ass hairstyle mark the height of sophistication. After Angie's mother allows her to fly for her 'Uncle Anthony' as a missionary pilot, Angie reports the murder of Asmat natives. She becomes a tool for her 'Uncle's' plans to gain control of a gold mine and the quarry of mercenaries who protect the new owner's possession of the same mine. Charles Abbott Aldridge is a proper New Englander who wants to study primitive tribes, help his father, and be left alone to live his life. Charles, lost and presumed dead for half-a-dozen years, is the only man who can help Angie. Smart-mouthed Angie needs proper New Englander Charles to escape from those people looking to kill her and Charles needs Angie to help his father. Angie's Uncle Anthony must deal with Angie's mother alone.

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 Separatists, 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 promote 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.