John H Manhold
El Tigre
The Life and Times of El Tigre Viejo
ISBN9780972638340, Historical/Western, 328 pages, Hardcover, by John H. Manhold
El Tigre is the multiple-award-winning saga of a Prussian aristocrat in the post-Napoleonic Era who, after an unfortunate incident in the Military Academy, moves through many exciting and dangerous adventures from France and Spain, to the Americas, and from Florida to Texas and then, the gold laden frontier of old California. The action is fast and the romance tender, providing appeal to both sexes. It is suitable reading for teenagers, as well.
A second edition, in e-Book form has just been published by SynergEbook
The Elymais Coin
ISBN9780979757204, Mystery/Detective, 233 pages, Paperback by John H. Manhold
As the United States continues its involvement in the Middle East, The award-winning Elymais Coin provides a provocative scenario for how the complex beliefs of the Middle East could entangle the United States in a web of danger and uncertainty. A wealthy coin collector has hired Cy Lane, a lawyer/private investigator, to find and return the 3000-year-old coin. The search moves from the United States to France, Andorra, Spain, Morocco and Mexico before returning, and Cy discovers that he is not the only one seeking possession the coin. A shadowy Middle Easterner, a beautiful Russian woman, a rabidly anti-Muslim bishop’s acolyte, the Mafia, the CIA, and the United States Attorney General want it too. The premise is intriguing and the action far-ranging. The book provides appeal for both sexes.
LOBO, The Strange Life of William Jameson, by John H. Manhold
e-book edition by SynergEbooks. Paperback due in late October 2009
In the tumultuous last half of the 19th century a young Ohio farm boy moves from the Oregon Trail to an Eton education and life with the English aristocracy, and then to the life of a fencing master in New Orleans with a beautiful paramour, and finally, to involvement in the Civil War and an important position in that city’s Reconstruction Era.
