Escaping Grenada

by Robert Hodam, Cara Stein (Editor), Teodoro Chinde (Illustrator)

Non-fiction, true account of the author's role in the US invasion of Grenada. Under continuous armed guard by Cuban soldiers Mr. Hodam is in Grenada on a UN mission in the month before the US invasion. His colleagues are arrested as spies and he is forced to flee the island on a smuggler's boat to Trinidad when the Cuban army closes the airport. No one is who they seem to be.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2013

About the author

Robert Hodam began life on a subsistence farm in eastern Oklahoma and went on to be an energy consultant to the U.S. Congress, World Bank, United Nations, Standard Oil, Asian Development Bank and other international institutions. He has served as the CEO of several for profit companies as well as one non-profit International Center for Economic Growth a professional association of economic policy institutes in 108 countries.

He is a graduate of Stanford University, MS Chemical Engineering; University of Southern California, MBA; and Oklahoma State, BS Engineering. He served as Captain US Army 1969-1972, worked as an oil field roustabout, bartender at Harrah’s club, fry cook at Disneyland and Aerospace engineer at Douglas Aircraft.

His series “Living Dangerously” documents his experiences in two political assassinations, four coups, plane crashes, kidnappings, CIA projects, and other international events.

He is recently retired and lives with his wife of 42 years in Elk Grove California.