Scandalous sexual relations, abuse of power, political dirty tricks, the largest mass tort in U.S. history — just a few of the issues that have kept Mike Bond in court for over 35 years trying to persuade judges and juries of the justice of his clients’ causes. The stories told in Remember to Duck provide entertainment for readers who enjoy courtroom drama, and include advice, tips, and pearls of wisdom about clients, witnesses, judges, and juries for the aspiring trial lawyer.

Remember to Duck: A Trial Lawyer's Memoir

Bond, Mike

Rules & Procedures

Michael J. Bond

For fans of Steve Berry, Daniel Silva and Ken Follett, a riveting, smart thriller.Goodbye Paris is a window to today's France, its elegance and poverty, humanism and fanaticism, beauty and despair, the magic of the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame and the tragic fate awaiting them.Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins races to France when he learns that an ISIS terrorist he'd thought was dead has an Iranian backpack nuclear weapon and plans to destroy Paris. Pono was once Mustafa al-Boudienne's prisoner in Iraq, and is now the only one left alive to identify him.Reaching Paris, Pono finds that his closest comrade has been kidnapped, and that the date to destroy the city is fast approaching. Joining forces with allies from US and French intelligence, and with a fearless and brilliant French agent, Anne Ronsard, Pono sets out against impossible odds to catch and kill Mustafa and his terrorist cell before they can destroy the most beautiful city on earth. Based on the author's years of experience with terrorism and Middle East wars, and his deep knowledge of French and US intelligence and military operations, Goodbye Paris is a stunning thriller, an entrancing love story, and an exciting account of anti-terror operations from Paris and Morocco to Afghanistan.

Goodbye Paris (Pono Hawkins, 3)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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The Insider's Guide to Mexico

Travel

Bond, Peggy

Mexico

Hunter Pub Inc

An action packed, must read novel ... " - WASHINGTON TIMESWhen a beautiful journalist drowns mysteriously off Waikiki, former Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins, now a well-known surfer and international surfing correspondent, quickly gets caught up in trying to solve her death. What he learns soon targets him for murder or life in prison as a cabal of powerful energy corporations, foreign killers and crooked politicians focuses the blame on him.Haunted by memories of Afghanistan, and determined to protect the Hawaii he loves from dirty politics tied to huge destructive energy developments, Pono turns to Special Forces buddies and his own skills to fight his deadly enemies, trying to both save himself and track down her killers.Alive with the sights, sounds and history of Hawaii, Saving Paradise is also a rich portrait of what Pono calls "the seamy side of paradise", and a relentless thriller of politics, lies, manhunts and remorseless murder."A rousing crime thriller." - BOOK CHASE

Saving Paradise

Literary

Mandevilla Press

www.MikeBondBooks.com Shot down over the jungle with a planeload of marijuana, Vietnam War hero Joe Murphy gets caught up in the brutal Guatemalan Civil War when he witnesses an attack on a Mayan village by the Guatemalan Army and its CIA “advisors”. Badly injured, he escapes on a nightmare trek through the jungle, hunted by the Army, the CIA, and death squads. Healed by guerrilla doctor Dona Villalobos, he falls in love with her and tries to save her from the War’s widening horror of insanity, tragedy, and death. Caught in the crucible of violence and love, he learns the peaks and depths the human heart can reach, and what humans will do for, and to, each other. Based on the author’s own experiences as one of the last foreign correspondents left alive in Guatemala after over 100 journalists had been killed by Army death squads. • “A riveting thriller of murder, politics, and lies.” —London Broadcasting • “An extraordinary story that speaks from and to the heart. And a terrifying depiction of one man’s battle against the CIA and Latin American death squads.” —BBC • “A riveting story where even the good guys are bad guys, set in the politically corrupt and drug infested world of present-day Central America.” —Middlesborough Evening Gazette • “The climax is among the most horrifying I have ever read.” —Liverpool Daily Post • An ideal thriller for the beach, but be prepared to be there when the sun goes down.”—Herald Express Biography Mike Bond "The master of the existential thriller" (BBC) Best-selling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist, award-winning poet and international energy expert, Mike Bond has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of politics and multinational corporations, and the magical beauty of the vanishing natural world. His latest novel, SAVING PARADISE, the epic of a Hawaiian surfer and former Special Forces vet caught up in the murder of a beautiful Honolulu reporter, has been called the "eco-novel of the decade" for its depiction of corporate and political corruption and the battle for Hawaii's remaining paradises. His four previous novels are all based on his experiences in far, dangerous corners of the world: HOLY WAR: A British undercover agent fights for his life in Beirut at the height of the Lebanese War -- a deep look into the Middle East's ancient wars and hatreds. FIRE LIKE THE SUN: An international best-seller about U.S. nuclear warheads lost in the Himalayas, a manhunt through Nepal, Iran, Greece, Algeria, France, Virginia and Colorado. HOUSE OF JAGUAR: Vietnam vet and weed smuggler Joe Murphy loses his plane in a Guatemalan jungle attack, falls in love with the woman guerrilla who heals him, and fights to protect them both as the death squads hunt them down.

The Last Savanna

HOUSE OF JAGUAR: A tense, dangerous thriller of CIA operations and dirty wars in Latin America, guerrilla battles, drug flights, environmental catastrophes and genocides. Based on the author’s own experiences as a war and human rights correspondent there.1.ARCHETYPAL STORY OF LOVE AND DEATH: The intensity of love when any instant you can be killed. There is no safety anywhere, and any mistake could doom the person you love.2.FEEL THE FEAR: What’s it like to be hunted through the jungle, on foreign streets and in dirty barrios by endless faceless enemies? When you can never escape?3.EXOTIC: Midnight landings on mountain roads, guerrilla encampments, the Mexican underworld and California rock stars. HOUSE OF JAGUAR puts you there.4.AMERICA’S DIRTIEST WARS: HOUSE OF JAGUAR breaks the silence on the extensive war crimes perpetrated by US-backed military dictatorships in Central America. The author was the last foreign correspondent left in Guatemala when over 150 journalists had been killed by death squads, and worked thereafter as a human rights activist exposing US actions.See http://nyti.ms/1jWunDe5.WE CAUSED IT BUT WE’RE INVISIBLE: Starting with the US overthrow of Guatemala’s elected government in 1954, the US plunged that country into 45 years of civil wars and genocides. The present trial of ex-dictator Rios Montt has focused on numerous atrocities committed with the support of the Reagan administration, but the US has not even been cited in the trial. 6.HISTORICAL THRILLER: House of Jaguar is the core of Tikal, Guatemala’s ancient city civilization. What was it like?7.JUNGLE LIFE: The animals, trees, insects, the intensity of verdant thriving beings. The author traveled many miles of jungle and paddled many wild rivers and streams. HOUSE OF JAGUAR puts you there.8.DOES THE US TORTURE? What really happens inside the torture cells, the US covert groups, and genocidal Army units? HOUSE OF JAGUAR puts you there.9.KILLING CHRIST’S MESSENGERS: Why exterminate the Catholic clergy too? HOUSE OF JAGUAR tells why.10.THE SIX HOUSES OF HELL: House of Jaguar is the first of the six Mayan houses of Hell. Primeval myths and Mayan memories powerfully influence many Guatemalans. Are they a metaphor for what we’ve done? 11.BEFORE THE FIRING SQUAD: Will you want the blindfold as they tie you to the bullet-splintered bloody pole and you look down the barrels of the waiting guns? HOUSE OF JAGUAR puts you there.12.A DOLLAR A DAY IS PLENTY OF PAY: The role of US fruit companies in stamping out democracy in Central America. HOUSE OF JAGUAR tells how.13.WANT MORE WEAPONS? You’re a military dictatorship and the CIA wants to give you more weapons but you’re so evil that Congress has suspended military aid. How does the CIA get you the weapons anyway? HOUSE OF JAGUAR explains how.14.YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO LIVE: You’ve just been grabbed off the street by a death squad and thrown into a Black Maria. In 30 seconds they’ll pull up on a side street, drag you out and cut your throat. What are your last thoughts?15.EXTERMINATING THE RAIN FOREST: Can we protect the last vestiges of rain forest in Central America? And their magnificent animals?“Tough and tense thriller.” − Manchester Evening News“A terrifyig depiction of one man’s battle against the CIA and Latin American death squads.” – BBC“With detailed descriptions of actual jungle battles and manhunts, vanishing rain forests and the ferocity of guerrilla war, House of Jaguar also reveals the CIA’s role in both death squads and drug running, twin scourges of Central America.” − Newton Chronicle“Vicious thriller of drugs and revolution in the wilds of Guatemala, with the adventurer hero, aided by a woman doctor, facing a crooked CIA agent. The climax is among the most horrifying I have ever read.” − Liverpool Daily Post

House of Jaguar

An American climber in the Himalayas stumbles on a shipment of backpack nuclearweapons headed into Tibet for use against China. Pursued by spy agencies and other killersacross Asia, North Africa, Europe and the United States, he is captured then rescued by abeautiful young woman with whom he forms a deadly liaison. They escape, are captured andescape again, death always at their heels. A terrifying international manhunt and stunninglove story, Tibetan Cross is a European best-seller.CRITICAL PRAISE for TIBETAN CROSS:.“Intense and unforgettable.” FORT LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL“Grips the reader from the very first chapter until the climactic ending.” UPI“Almost impossible to put down.” I LOVE A MYSTERY“A tautly written study of one man’s descent into living hell.” SPOKANE CHRONICLERICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH “Murderous intensity.”“A chilling story of escape and pursuit.” TACOMA NEWS-TRIBUNE“An astonishing thriller.” SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER“Grips the reader from the opening chapter and never lets go.” MIAMI HERALDMORE PRAISE FOR MIKE BOND“One of America’s best thriller writers” CULTURE BUZZ“One of the 21st Century’s most exciting authors.” WASHINGTON TIMES“One of the best books of 2014.” NETGALLEY REVIEWS“Bond’s latest book is a must-read.” YAHOO REVIEWS“Bond touches on the vast and eerie depths that lie under the thin crust of civilizationand the base instinct within man to survive.” NOTTINGHAM OBSERVER“A highly distinctive writer.” LIVERPOOL DAILY POST“Bond is the master of the existential thriller.” BBCAUTHOR BIO:Bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent and environmentalactivist, Mike Bond has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote andwar-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict theinnate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terrorand fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations andpoliticians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.www.MikeBondBooks.comMandevilla Press“ONE OF THE 21 ST CENTURY’S MOST EXCITING AUTHORS.”—Washington Times

Tibetan Cross

The Battle of Beirut is worse than Hell, a maelstrom of implacable hatreds and frantic love affairs, of explosions, sniper battles and deadly ambushes. Neill, a journalist on a secret mission for Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency, is trying to find Mohammed, a Hezbollah terrorist who couldstop the slaughter.André, a French commando, is also hunting Mohammed, to kill him for the death of his brother,blown up with over 400 US Marines and French paratroopers by Hezbollah. For Rosa, a remorseless and passionate Palestinian guerrilla, Mohammed is one of few hopes for her people, and she will die to protect him. And for lovely Anne-Marie, André is the only one who can save her from Hell.Based on the author’s own experiences in Lebanon, Syria and the Middle East, Holy War has been praised for its portrayal of civil war, and for its evocation of men and women caught in a deadly crossfire.

Holy War

KIRKUS: "Another stellar ride from Bond; checking out Pono’s first adventure isn’t a prerequisite, but this will make readers want to."Surfer and Special Forces vet Pono Hawkins quits sunny Hawaii for Maine’s brutal winter to help former SF buddy Bucky Franklin beat a murder rap. The same Bucky who once sent Pono to military prison then married his girlfriend Lexie. But in Special Forces you never leave a buddy behind no matter what they’ve done. Especially if they once saved your life.An unknown sniper has shot environmental exec Ronnie Dalt, and the police say it was Bucky. So Pono finds himself hooked up with Bucky’s wife Lexie trying to find Bucky an alibi. And meets an old flame, the fierce and beautiful attorney Erica, and then the dead man’s wife Abigail, who has never met a man she couldn’t devour alive.Unknown killers stalk Pono as he tries to unravel Ronnie’s death. Nothing is certain, no one can be trusted, no place is safe. There’s a million square miles of wildlands out there to hide a man’s body. And with a rap sheet that includes two jail sentences, Pono is the number one target of every cop in the state.Sadly Maine turns out to be as politically corrupt as Hawaii, with huge energy corporations gobbling up the state’s beautiful mountains and purchasing its politicians at bargain prices. Once again Pono finds himself hunted, shot at, betrayed, stalked by knife-wielding assassins, and in love with three women.Second in the Pono Hawkins series after the critically-acclaimed, best-seller SAVING PARADISE, KILLING MAINE is an insider’s view of crooked Maine politics, the state’s magical and fast-disappearing natural beauty, and how a lone commando hunts down those who hunt him, and is based on the author’s own experiences in Maine, the Middle East and elsewhere.KIRKUS Review:In Bond’s latest thriller, Hawaiian surfer Pono Hawkins books a flight to Maine to help a fellow Special Forces vet duck a murder conviction.Pono doesn’t consider Bucky Franklin a friend. Years ago, Bucky left with Pono’s love, Lexie, and provided testimony in one of two cases that sent Pono to jail (although both convictions were overturned). But Bucky saved Pono’s life when they were in Special Forces, and he’s determined to help when Lexie tells him he’s been arrested for killing environmentalist Ronnie Dalt. It doesn’t look good for Bucky. The murder weapon was his, and his alibi is shaky. But Pono knows he’s on the right track when someone tries to shoot him. He starts a dangerous relationship with Dalt’s widow, Abigail, and gradually exposes a string of political unscrupulousness. Bond’s novel, the second to feature Pono, makes its protagonist credible as an amateur sleuth; Pono’s smart enough to enlist hacker pal Mitchell, whose skills draw more viable suspects than Pono can find on his own. And his beloved home is always on his mind as he suffers the Maine winter hoping to wrap everything up before an upcoming surfing festival, the Tahiti Tsunami. The story has an unusual villain, WindPower LLC, whose deafening, monstrous turbines are an incessant presence throughout the story. The political and financial muscle behind WindPower is abundantly clear from the beginning, immediately demonizing the company. The book, however, isn’t short on mysteries. Abigail, for one, inexplicably vanishes, a disappearance that the cops blame on Pono, as well as a couple of murders. Like in Pono’s previous story, the surfer’s fondness for women creates a triad of drama: Abigail; lawyer Erica, a lover from back when Pono was a mere 14; and Lexie (Pono won’t sleep with her while Bucky’s in jail, but it’s obvious that he’s trying his hardest not to). Pono’s relationship with his Pa is the strongest; the most heartfelt moments are Pono rushing back to Hawaii, regardless of cops wanting him to stay in Maine, when Pa’s diagnosed with cancer.Another stellar ride from Bond.

Killing Maine (A Pono Hawkins Thriller)

United States

Big City Press

"An exhilarating spy novel that offers equal amounts of ingenuity and intrigue."-- KIRKUS In Bond's (Killing Maine, 2015, etc.) latest thriller, an intelligence operative spends decades immersed in America's struggle with Islamic terrorists.Jack is on a CIA mission in Afghanistan in 1982 to aid the Afghan opposition to Soviet invaders. But he has a personal investment, too: under his previous cover as a Peace Corps volunteer, he'd taught kids at a local village and became a blood brother to teacher Ahmad. The Americans supply the Afghans with missiles to take down Soviet helicopters, but later, after alliances shift, the CIA works to prevent a truce between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. When the Islamic Jihad terrorist group bombs the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, the agency sends Jack to Lebanon to gather intel. What he learns is staggering: the bombing was reputedly in retaliation for the American bombardment of Beirut villages--which was itself retribution for the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon earlier that year.As the years pass, Jack gets involved with Sophie Dassault, who'd saved his life while she was working for Doctors without Borders. But he can't escape the cycle of violence; in 1986, he travels to Paris to stop an Algerian terrorist that he'd once trained. The American government, meanwhile, may be helping certain terrorist groups by allowing them to thrive unchecked. Bond's epic novel is packed with historical references, including a mention of Osama bin Laden long before the events of 9/11; an opening prologue set in 2015 ensures that the narrative spans more than 30 years.Overall, the story maintains a provocative, intelligent tone, rather than indulging in garish conspiracies--despite its allusions to nefarious deeds by various presidential administrations. Jack himself is the true focus of the narrative, and Bond shows how he blames himself for the violence as much as he does the higher-ups; he sums it up best by saying, "We're just boys playing war." Other characters, from a Soviet officer to an Afghan warlord (who's also Ahmad's brother), provide perspective and steer the plot clear of easy definitions of good and evil. There's also profundity at times, especially regarding the futility of vengeance; at one point, Jack even suggests that truly avenging someone is an impossible feat.An exhilarating spy novel that offers equal amounts of ingenuity and intrigue.

Assassins

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