Hell In Paradise

By Jack R. Stanley

In the paradise of Rabaul, New Britain, on the island of New Guinea, five years after the end of World War II, a young bride, Nadia Tanner, comes to make her home near a trible village with her husband. A native and convicted murder, Michael, a model prisoner for five year, works around the civilized part of island with other convicts on work gangs. When Michael sees Nadia for the first time, he is convienced that she is the reborn sister he claims not to have killed years before. He escapes and kidnappes Nadia and drags her naked into the jungle intending to escape civilization and join the head hunters in the mountains. In the course of searching for Michael and Nadia, a surprising discovery comes to light about his crime. But can she be found before Michael gets her acorss the river and into mountains?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jack R. Stanley
• Release date: Jul 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301045440

Jack R. Stanley

Jack R. Stanley is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam he earned the Bronze Star. Yet he says, “When you’re in a firefight and everybody else on both side have guns while you have a camera --- you get to change your pants a lot.” After his military service he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also received two of Michigan1s most prestigious creative writing awards, The Hopwood Award, one for a one-act play and the second for a novel. Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley’s first academic position was TV Area Head at The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Radio-TV-Film. He later moved to deep-south Texas and the Lower Rio Grande Valley for a challenging position with The University of Texas-Pan American. Here he taught Theatre-TV-Film for 30 years in the Department of Communication serving as Department Chair at U.T.P.A. for 11 years. He did take one year out to work for The University of Alaska Anchorage as a visiting professor. Back in Texas, Stanley directed for stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student staffed, cast, and crewed feature films, writing most of the original screenplays. Just a few of his credits are available on IMDB.com. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com.