The Accidental Agent

About the Book

“To paraphrase a line from the movie Jerry McGuire, ‘This book had me from “Hello.”’...powerful..."

The Montserrat volcano forces an international drug lord from his home, setting in motion a chain of events that leads through boat explosions; mid-air plane conflagrations; chases through rush hour streets of Atlanta and Chicago; back-alley machine gun killings and the works of one of the world’s best sociopathic hit-men.

Brian Withers wants to live his life quietly, teaching college, but the FBI and the drug ring both find him an attractive cover for gathering information. Brian and his wife Susannah are pulled constantly deeper into a world they never envisioned…purely by accident.

A wealthy Chicago widow is determined to spend her fortune tracking down and killing those who had a hand in the drug death of her teen son. A bag lady covers the underside of Chicago to arrange a death.

A Greek fisherman whose wife is dying an expensive death, an escaped murderer who would kill again with ease, a retarded man who doesn’t know the evil he is assisting; all come together on the Panhandle coast of Florida, Carrabelle, Apalachicola and Panama City.

So skillfully plotted and propelling the reader needs to clear his calendar for the next three days before reading the first page.

About the Author

Mangham lives between the North Carolina mountains and the Florida Panhandle. His second book, Shadow of the Hawk, contended for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. He attended FSU and Goddard and taught at Gulf Coast College in Panama City. A fifth book, Acceptable Deception, is due in Dec. 2002.