Hell In Paradise

by Jack 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?

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First published July 10, 2013

About the author

Jack R. Stanley is an award winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam he was awarded 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
Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student staffed, cast, and crewed feature film --- writing most of the original screenplays. 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 .