JOHN ENRIGHT
John Enright, resident of Samoa for the last 26 years, is active today as an author, poet and American Samoa Historic Preservation Officer.
Prior to moving back to Samoa, he studied and worked in the US, as a freelance editor and publisher at Independent Publishing and Tinkers Dam Press, San Francisco, Managing Editor for Production at University of California Press, textbook production editor at John Wiley & Sons, Prentice-Hall Inc., research flunky at Newsweek, Time, Fortune and hot strip mill laborer at Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna, N.Y.
He has an M.A. in Folklore, University of California, Berkeley, 1971 and a B.A. in Literature, City College of New York, 1969
BOOKS AVAILABLE IN SCANDINAVIA:
Paradise islands, sunny blue skies, blue oceans, white beaches and murders.
(The three first books in the new excotic murdermystery series about Detective Seargent Apelu Soifua, Samoa.)
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Pago Pago Tango |
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Enright, John |
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English
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Fiction |
Adventure - Mystery & Detective – Novel - Thriller |
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Book, 300 Pages |
The 1st story in the new detective series. Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua of Pago Pago, American Samoa, must unravel the mystery of the blue videos stolen in a domestic break-in, which leads to an international crime syndicate involved with the islands biggest industry. A new, exciting author in the tradition of Martin Cruz Smith mixed with Trevor MacDonald. |
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Original title |
Fire Knife Dancing |
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Author
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Enright, John |
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English
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Fiction |
Adventure - Mystery & Detective – Novel - Thriller |
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Book, 300 Pages |
Series #2: Sent to investigate an elderly couple, retired Polynesian dancers, firing over the heads of trespassers - Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua unravels the petty crime and, in the process, becomes the target of desperate human traffickers on the islands of Samoa in the sparkling South Pacific. |
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To`Aga |
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Author
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Enright, John |
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English
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Adventure - Mystery & Detective – Novel - Thriller |
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Book, 300 Pages |
Series #3: On compassionate leave, Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua mourns the death of his daughter on the remote island of To`Aga in the American Samoan chain in the South Pacific. Plagued by ghosts of ancestors, mysterious surveys by unscrupulous developers in protected bays, and, not least, reconnecting with his Samoan roots, Detective Sergeant Apelu Soifua must unravel his past, his future, and a beheaded island visitor. |
RIGHTS AVAILABLE IN NORWAY, SWEDEN AND DENMARK.
