Recent release "Survivors and Connivers on Moloka'i" from Page Publishing author Patrick Simmons shares a compelling story concerning a seventeen-year-old, Doug Malone, who quits college, leaves home, and heads to Mexico to escape an abusive, alcoholic father. Then as a U.S. Coast Guardsman in 1953, he visited the Molokai Leper Colony.
BRADENTON, Fla., July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Patrick Simmons, a licensed complex aircraft pilot who lives in South Florida with his wife, has completed his new book "Survivors and Connivers on Moloka'i": a gripping and potent work that follows the journey of seventeen-year-old Doug Malone as he journeys to Mexico to escape his abusive father.
After an adventurous start, Doug's perk '35 Plymouth perishes near the Mexican border. In addition, he finds himself out of money and decides to return to Oregon. While hitchhiking home, Doug survives a car accident in remote, snow-packed southern Oregon. There, he is kidnapped by two reprobates, but he uses his .22 pistol to escape. Meanwhile, the 1950 Korean War intensifies.
Back Home, he finds a job and then enlists in the USCG when he turns eighteen. The coast guard sends Doug to an electronic technician school in Groton, Connecticut. Upon graduation, he volunteers for duty in Korea, but instead, is assigned to an isolated duty Loran station on NW Moloka'i, where he finds desolation, a deadly disease, axis deer, attacking sharks, connivers, a great friend, and several unusual events.
Published by Page Publishing, Patrick Simmons's captivating work follows Douglas's time in Kaunakakai, Moloka'i's only town, as he arranges a fishing trip, endears a lovely lady, and flies to the Kalaupapa leper colony on New Year's Eve in 1953.
Readers who wish to experience this engrossing work can purchase "Survivors and Connivers on Moloka'i" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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