The Hero of Blind Pig Island and Other Island Stories

by Jimmy Olsen

Overview

This collection of island stories carries the reader from daring adventures beneath the Caribbean Sea to tense conflict on a deserted island near the Canadian border. Love stories and private eyes, a boy living on a lonely salt cay and a girl's dream of freedom at sea, hurricanes and heroes -- all told with humor ad the insight that comes from firsthand experience.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016155487
Publisher:	Hoffman House Press, LLC
Publication date:	08/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	246
File size:	777 KB

About the Author

Jimmy Olsen is a native of Hoffman, Minnesota and has degrees from St. Cloud State University and the University of Alabama. He’s worked as a newspaper reporter, editor and photographer. For nearly 40 years he has been an active scuba diver and instructor, living five years in the Dominican Republic. His first novel Things In Ditches was released in December, 2000, and his short stories have appeared in literary magazines in the U.S. and the Caribbean. He lives with his wife Camille in St. Cloud, where he is at work on several more novels, short stories, and poetry.