About the AuthorWayne Stinnett is a best selling American novelist and a Veteran of the Marine Corps. Between those careers, hes worked as a deckhand, commercial fisherman, Divemaster, taxi driver, construction manager, and long-haul truck driver. He lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Travelers Rest, SC with his wife and youngest daughter. They have three grown children, four grand children, three dogs and a whole flock of parakeets. He grew up in Melbourne, Florida and has also lived in the Florida Keys, the Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico. what products are in high demand right now Fallen Mangrove: A Jesse McDermitt Novel (Jessie McDermitt Series) (Volume 5)
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful. So...So... compared to the previous books.By CBI loved the previous Jesse McDermitt series books. This next book in the series missed the mark a bit for me. I had two major issues with it. One is that it takes coincidence to an extreme level. The second is that it skipped over much of the more intimate and character building parts that made the other books so great while at the same time devoting too much time to other viewpoints of the villains who we care little about. Spoilers may follow.........So all of a sudden Jesse's daughter shows up. He has not seen her since she was 5 months old... and within pages she is one of the gang. This relationship and renewal should have taken a quarter of the book at a minimum! So much history, explanations and questions... glossed over with a paragraph of "we spent the evening talking". Then... on the treasure hunt. The climax and find takes only a few pages. Weak.There are reasons and formula with which the first four books are so enjoyable. This fifth book seems to skip much of that. I hope the next one book regains the trail which this one lost.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Best of the bunch!By JohnFallen Mangrove is by far the best book in the Jesse McDermitt series to date. The format here is similar to Clive Cussler and his Dirk Pitt adventures at sea...this story begins in the 15th century and then moves to present time with Jesse and company. Somebody had double-crossed Jesse and planted a bug on his boat several weeks earlier, and unknowingly, the team continues working diligently on board to decipher a cryptic coconut that has passed through several generations of Doc's family. The third party, listening in to these discussions, pull out all the stops when it is discovered that the writing on the coconut is a secret riddle leading to millions of dollars of buried treasure. Now the race begins!Mr. Stinnett keeps readers on the edge of their seats as the story unfolds...there are pretty women, hired killers, gun battles, a practicing witch in the black arts with a briefcase full of secret potions, innocents die, and Jesse's two estranged daughters suddenly show up after many years; one is a free spirit and the other married to a lawyer in Miami, pregnant with Jesse's first grandchild due very soon. Will Jesse change his ways now that his daughters are back in his life? Team members are drugged and double-crossed - all is not what it seems. Is there actually buried treasure? what kind of ties does Jesse's pregnant daughter have with the villains in the story? You'll have to read the story for these answers!Great job Wayne! Looking forward to the next book in the series which is due out next month!John Podlaski, authorCherries - A Vietnam War Novel21 of 23 people found the following review helpful. Good book full of action but ....By carolee norenAll said and done its a good read and it easily deserves a 3 star rating. It would be a four star if McDermitt would just get into the plot before you had to read a fully one quarter of the book to know where its going. In his previous book he went into great detail as to how he developed a private island in the Keys as his home. In this book, he again goes into great detail so that his followers have to read, all about it, all over again. There are so many un-related bad guy groups trying to steal his treasure, if he were to actually find it, that the reader needs to develop a cast of characters to keep track of which bad guys are which in the story because it jumps from one bad guy group to another.